They never tell us anything so the competition won't know. How ridiculous that they could have solved this problem 5 or 6 years ago!
Anyone interested in having this common utility needs to deluge them with suggestions. They must think no one cares, although, if they read this list, they would know. But hey. CE Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:37:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Special characters From: [email protected] To: [email protected] UTF-8,UTF-16, Unicode characters have been possible for 5-6 years via 3rd party Libraries used with Visual Basic 6. Legacy 7 and Legacy 8 both could have supported UTF-8 with these libraries. Some 3rd product libraries and there are others: http://www.cyberactivex.com/unicodetutorialvb.htm http://www.hexagora.com/en_dw_unictrl.asp Unicode would allow you to documet ancestors with Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew and many other letters currently not supported. Whether Legacy 9 departs from VB6 or not it should support Unicode, UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do we know if this is part of the spec for Version 9? On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: Ron, Legacy does not support utf-8 as the program is based on VB6 technology and .NET is needed for utf-8. Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
