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From: "Julia Walsh" <>
Subject: [GENBOX] Re: [GENBOX] Why will £ character not export correc tly to gedcom ?? (fixed)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 04:07:13 -0000
In-Reply-To: <00cd01c39b71$1f3ac1e0$4340880a@BILLXP>


Bill

Thank you very much, both for the fix and the explanation.

Best wishes

Julia

-----Original Message-----
From: William T. Flight [mailto:]
Sent: 26 October 2003 03:28
To:
Subject: [GENBOX] Re: [GENBOX] Why will £ character not export correctly
to gedcom ?? (fixed)


Hi Julia,

I have this fixed in 3.1.6.

For notes stored in the database, UNICODE characters with codes greater
than 127 are stored in the format "\uxxxx?", where "xxxx" is the numeric
code. Version 3.1.5 would export and import notes with this encoding,
but other programs probably can't decode them.

For a GEDCOM export in version 3.1.6, this formatting is replaced with
the equivalent UNICODE character when the character set is set to
UNICODE or UTF-8, or with the equivalent ANSEL character(s) when that
character set is chosen. This will make exported notes transfer better
to other programs.

Best regards,

-- Bill

William T. Flight
http://www.thoughtfulcreations.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Walsh" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: [GENBOX] Why will £ character not export correctly to gedcom ??


Does any kind soul know why various characters such as £ do not export
correctly, no matter what gedcom option I use. It shows up as expected
in any of the Genbox fields, so I'm assuming my Windows settings are
okay. I think this is also happening with some other characters, such as
/ ,but haven't yet investigated them fully.

What I am getting instead is "\u163?" (without the quotes)for the £
symbol.

Thanks

Julia






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