Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Concerns about MyHeritage

2017-08-06 Thread cf6e2e9d
I posted the following on the merger announcement at Millennia's website. You [Geoff] said that in order for Legacy to support Unicode it would have to be rewritten from scratch. Sherry has posted on the Legacy Support list-server that VB6 doesn't support Unicode so Legacy's software programmers

Re: [LegacyUG] Millennia Sale to MyHeritage

2017-08-06 Thread cf6e2e9d
​​ 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

Re: [LegacyUG] Merger with MyHeritage

2017-08-06 Thread cf6e2e9d
I've stopped at Legacy 8 until they fix what I consider a major flaw. If and when they fix this will determine whether I upgrade. Brian On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Wes Jester [Masked] < > wrote: > Preview: I am sorry to see this happen. Legacy has been a wonderful pr > This email is

Re: [LegacyUG] Millennia Sale to MyHeritage

2017-08-06 Thread cf6e2e9d
Unicode is a standard for storing, manipulating, and displaying text for almost all languages. ANSI only covers some languages. Why is Unicode important? Without it we can't accurately enter most languages' characters, store them, and display them. For example none of the Japanese characters

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 - date change after latest update

2017-09-28 Thread cf6e2e9d
Estimate and about are synonym as far as I'm concerned. I always try to go back to the source since that's what it's based on. On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Brian Kelly [Masked] < > wrote: > > > > > Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two. > > This can be a birth

Re: [LegacyUG] Mailing List please unscribe me from mailing list

2018-03-08 Thread cf6e2e9d
Wait a minute. I paid attention. ;) On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Michele/Support [Masked] < > wrote: > Preview: I don’t have access to the inner workings on the LUG mailing > This email is forwarded from a MASKED EMAIL you created using Blur >

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

2018-03-01 Thread cf6e2e9d
​​ Sherry, CyberCyberActiveX and Hexagora are two companies that have software that would fix this problem without a rewrite of Legacy. Hexagora states: "The Unicode Library for VB6 is a robust and lightweight API driven ActiveX component that will permit you to turn your VB6 programs into

Re: [LegacyUG] Special Characters

2018-03-01 Thread cf6e2e9d
You speak with such authority and knowledge that I mistook you for a current Millennia empolyee. I will consider sending an e-mail as you suggest. Brian On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Sherry H [Masked] < > wrote: > > > > > They're not "my" programmers When I was working for Legacy in >