What is Unicode?  What good is it to the majority of Legacy Software?

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On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 1:32 PM, <cf6e2...@opayq.com> wrote:

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>
> Geoff and others have made it quite clear that they will not rewrite
> Legacy in another programming language.  Having over 20 years experience in
> software engineering and having interacted with product managers that is
> perfectly understandable.
>
> I can't say to what level Millennia has explored using third party
> vendors' tools to provide Unicode support since I don't have access to
> their code or business structure.  My understanding is that VB6 stores
> characters in Unicode but before it manipulates or displays them it
> converts to ANSI.  That is where CyberActiveX and Hexagora comes in.  They
> provide source code and tools to do this.  Their sotware should be well
> tested because international companies such as IBM, Toshiba, Siemens, etc.
> are using it.  Both companies seem eager to help integrate their software
> and support it.  Given that even this undertaking is not trivial.
>
> In the end Millennia doesn't owe us an explanation but I think we deserve
> a more accurate reason than Legacy would need to be rewritten from
> scratch.
>
> Brian
>
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 7:51 AM, JoAnne Flynn [Masked] <> <+target=> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Unicode is a character encoding system that can handle all the
>>> characters for all the languages in the world plus special characters. It
>>> is important to those with ancestors from Slavic/Eastern European, China,
>>> Japan, etc. These are areas which use alphabets that are not supported
>>> currently in Legacy. It may have no impact on you but many researchers do
>>> have ancestors whose names use these special alphabets and who lived in
>>> areas where place names are in those alphabets.
>>>
>>> Adding Unicode support to Legacy will greatly expand the potential user
>>> base.
>>>
>>> Brian Kelly
>>>
>>> On 04-Aug-17 1:22 PM, JoAnne Flynn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hate to appear completely ignorant- but what is Unicode and why is
>>>> that important to my genealogy recording keeping software??
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 4, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Ian Macaulay <macau...@icmac.ca <mailto:
>>>> macau...@icmac.ca>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you manufacture something that thousands are using, would you cater
>>>> to one or two special cases???
>>>>
>>>> However I would be more worried about FAG.  Its Ancestry and in Direct
>>>> competition with My Heritage.
>>>>
>>>> I guess the test will be in the pudding,  But so far you can use Legacy
>>>> as it is for as long as your Computers can run it.
>>>> If you don't like 10 than you can keep on using what you have.
>>>>
>>>> I sure hope that the folks at Millennia get whats right in the way of
>>>> Jobs and Compensation,  They have been a great organization since their
>>>> start.
>>>>
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Leonard J. McCown <leon...@mccown.org
>>>> <mailto:leon...@mccown.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     *Apparently Millennia programmers have their priorities, but not
>>>>     always the same as the users!____*
>>>>
>>>>     *__ __*
>>>>
>>>>     *­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____*
>>>>
>>>>     *___________________________________________________________
>>>> ______________________*
>>>>
>>>>     *__ __*
>>>>
>>>>     *Leonard J. McCown, Irving, Texas -- McCown Family History____*
>>>>
>>>>     *217 West 14th Street, Irving, Texas 75060-5903____*
>>>>
>>>>     *972-254-7952 <tel:(972)%20254-7952>____*
>>>>
>>>>     *leon...@mccown.org*<mailto:leon...@mccown.org>*--
>>>>     **http://www.mccown.org**____*
>>>>
>>>>     *People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward
>>>>     to____*
>>>>
>>>>     *their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke, 1790____*
>>>>
>>>>     *___________________________________________________________
>>>> ______________________*
>>>>
>>>>     __ __
>>>>
>>>>     *__ __*
>>>>
>>>>     *From:* LegacyUserGroup
>>>>     [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com
>>>>     <mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com>] *On Behalf Of
>>>> *Sherry
>>>>     *Sent:* Friday, August 4, 2017 10:01 AM
>>>>     *To:* Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com <mailto:exma...@gmail.com>>
>>>>     *Cc:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
>>>>     <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>>
>>>>     *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Millennia Sale to MyHeritage____
>>>>
>>>>     __ __
>>>>
>>>>     They've been saying that for years! I'd think there are tools to
>>>>     help with the conversion.....____
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     S.____
>>>>
>>>>     __ __
>>>>
>>>>     On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com
>>>>     <mailto:exma...@gmail.com>> wrote:____
>>>>
>>>>         But, as the reply to the question explained, conversion will
>>>>         mean a complete rewrite from the ground up.
>>>>
>>>>         That is a big effort and unless MyHeritage is willing to invest
>>>>         the money to do that by hiring a team of programmers it will not
>>>>         happen.
>>>>
>>>>         Brian Kelly
>>>>
>>>>         On 04-Aug-17 9:54 AM, Hot.Rod.Wife wrote:____
>>>>
>>>>                   You'd think that would be high on the list for an
>>>>             Israeli company...Sherry
>>>>
>>>>             -------- Original message --------
>>>>             From: Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com <mailto:
>>>> exma...@gmail.com>>
>>>>             Date: 8/4/17  6:49 AM  (GMT-08:00)
>>>>             To: Legacy Test <legacyt...@legacyusers.com
>>>>             <mailto:legacyt...@legacyusers.com>>, Legacy User Group
>>>>             <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>>>>             <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com>>
>>>>             Subject: [LegacyUG] Millennia Sale to MyHeritage
>>>>
>>>>             Well it looks like there will be interesting times ahead for
>>>>             Millennia
>>>>             and the software with the merger/acquisition of Millennia by
>>>>             MyHeritage.
>>>>
>>>>             Too bad that one of the answers about Legacy 10 is that it
>>>>             will not
>>>>             support Unicode. I guess that means that it will still be a
>>>>             Visual Basic
>>>>             application.
>>>>
>>>>             I am beginning to think it will never be migrated to the
>>>>             .net framework
>>>>             and Unicode.
>>>>
>>>>             Brian Kelly
>>>>
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