On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:18:39 +1200, "Andrew Jackett" <[email protected]> wrote: >Oops. My thinking was clouded. The use of zeroes instead of underscore >characters was out. They have quite separate meanings in BK. > >Maybe CIR, ABT, BEF, AFT etc. and the numbers and the underscore character >as well could all be acceptable input for working with the quick date >display set of characters. > >I said last time: "I was thinking if your number system allowed zeroes to be >converted to >underscores you could enter 23 April of an unknown year as 23040000 or April >1806 as 00041806." > >What I should've said was instead of 23040000 for 23 April of an unknown >year use 2304____ and instead of 00041806 for April 1806 use __041806 > Rember that we are in non-english language countries and even the month are in BK and Gedcom for three characters as mai des not MaY Dec and AFT are ett We mus have it correct as we also print reports and for som reports we use full name of monthj as desember, not December The converting part in BK are at this point not perfect and John does know that as well as we in Scandinatian. The same are in other non-english language Using 00 XX __(underscaore) are not accroding to Gedcom and will make troubles withe eg. gedcom to MyH or Geni or similar webtree systems -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014