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Posted Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Post #25693
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From the file menu we can export a Unicode formatted GedCom file for Genopro, but also in other encoding formats.

I do have some cousins back in Germany who work with genealogy programs(other than GenoPro) which only accept Ansi(Ascii) formatted files.
What needs to be done to change the encoding format for Gedcom files exported through the report generator?
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Posted Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Post #25695
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ASCII is a very old character set that have no accent or any foreign alphabet, but if you generate English report only I guess you could do that.

You can open any file in Unicode and convert it to ASCII/ANSI using notepad "Save As..." menu.



Edited: Thursday, March 25, 2010 by JcMorin

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Posted Thursday, March 25, 2010 - Post #25696
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ANSI is perfectly capable to handle the national character sets of 15+ European languages.  Not just plain English.
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Posted Friday, March 26, 2010 - Post #25700
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Nand (3/25/2010)
ANSI is perfectly capable to handle the national character sets of 15+ European languages. Not just plain English.

Your right but that depend on the codepage used... and that where the nightmare start!
If you write the file on your computer and shared it with someone using a different base codepage all characters can be wrongly interpreted.

Since Unicode with UTF-8 encoding have been widely accepted as simpler and superior to handle all characters for all languages ANSI have been pretty much abandon, it's a legacy for old software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 <- most used codepage for Latin based language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page <- read more about codepage.

Edited: Friday, March 26, 2010 by JcMorin


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