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    1. AW: Gedcom import - special characters in sources
    2. Gschneidinger Max
    3. Sigurd Eliassen wrote: > There is a problem concerning gedcom import of special characters in > sources. .... <snip> > The following happens: > > 1) IBM-PC Character set > > All characters come out correct everywhere - including the sources. > > 2) Ansel Character set > 3) Ansi Character set > 4) ISO 8859-1 for html > > The special characters come out wrong in the sources - but are perfect > everywhere else for all three character sets. > > I am talking about the 3 special Norwegian characters - I have not > tested all the others. > > As far as I can see from the gedcom files that are being created, the > source characters are correct in the gedcom files. So I think it has > something to do with the import routine. > Is there any experience with regard to the different types of GEDCOM *export* and then publishing the data using GED2WWW ? I used the default ANSI character set. The German Umlaut ä - ö - ü (ae - oe - ue) were exported well into HTML, but the special German letter ß (ss) got lost completely in the HTML pages. Max

    01/12/1998 09:38:03