Graham - you need to pick the Export Format you want (UTF-8) in the Export Gedcom File dialog. Simon Orde List Administrator & Family Historian designer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Chamberlain" <agc@katiandgraham.com> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [FHU] UTF8 Supported in v5? > Simon > > Thanks for this explanation of these very welcome FH5 features. I have > just one question for > clarification. I export my gedcom to my UTF-8 TNG website and would like > to know if I will need do a > 'Save-as' in UTF-8 or is there a 'Preferences' setting to always save as > UTF-8 or whatever else the > user may prefer? > > Graham > http://www.katiandgraham.com/genealogy > > On 05/12/2011 11:03, Simon Orde wrote: >> Apologies in advance to non-technical readers. This is a technical >> question, so the answer will inevitably also be technical. Read on if >> still >> interested... >> >> Graham - >> >> internally FH will continue to use ANSI, but it will do a proper import >> from, and export into, UTF-8 (and also from/to Unicode, ANSEL and >> ASCII) - >> i.e. accent characters in UTF-8 or Unicode etc will be correctly >> converted >> to ANSI , or vice versa; which they weren't previously in V4. When >> generating websites, the generated webpages will be correctly encoded as >> UTF-8 (which is pretty much the standard for web-pages these days). >> Also, >> if you simply open a GEDCOM file that was saved in UTF-8, Unicode etc, FH >> will correctly convert it into ANSI. >> >> What this means is that if you use accent characters which are supported >> in >> ANSI, in an ordinary English-language installation of Windows (and that >> includes a lot of accent characters, including all those required for a >> number of European languages such as French and German) you should find >> that >> these accent characters should now be fine in all contexts in V5 - i.e. >> they >> import correct, display correctly in the program (assuming you don't >> choose >> some strange font or font encoding), export correctly, and display >> correctly >> in generated websites. >> >> Windows provides a mechanism to help people who use certain languages >> with >> accent characters which are not supported in a default English-language >> installation of Windows - e.g. I think Czech falls into this category. >> There is a "Regional and Language options" setting in the control panel >> which allows you to specify one preferred language for non-Unicode >> programs >> to use. If you use this system for your preferred language, this also >> should work in V5. >> >> For interest, our impression, based on GEDCOM files that we have >> encountered >> (which is a lot), is that far more than 90% of them are encoded in ANSI. >> >> Hope that makes sense. >> >> Simon Orde >> List Administrator& Family Historian designer >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Graham Chamberlain"<agc@katiandgraham.com> >> To: "Family-Historian Users"<Family-Historian-USERS@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:03 PM >> Subject: [FHU] UTF8 Supported in v5? >> >> >>> Can anyone tell me if UTF8 character set will be supported in the >>> forthcoming FH v5 or will it still >>> only be ANSI? >>> >>> Graham >>> http://www.katiandgraham.com/genealogy >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message