Mike and John We will be releasing a free minor upgrade soon (hopefully this side of Christmas) that will include, amongst many other things, an option in Preferences to always save your data in a form of Unicode (called UTF-8) that most programs support - including Gensmarts. That should solve a number of problems with companion products that don't support UTF-16. You can already export your data in UTF-8 using the Export command on the File menu (click File, Import/Export , Export, GEDCOM File) but obviously it's easier if you don't have to do that. Simon Orde List Administrator and Family Historian Designer -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beryl & Mike Tate via Subject: Re: [FHU] Family Historian V6 and gensmarts John, this is due to a change in FH V6 to support UNICODE characters. The Gedcom file is now encoded in UTF-16 format. Regards, Mike Tate ------------- John via <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: >Hi I wonder if there are any Gensmarts users out there? Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have posted on the Gensmarts user forum which is only used sporadically these days. >I am no expert but have been using gensmarts alongside Family Historian for quite a while and have found it to be a useful tool. >However I recently upgraded my laptop to both FH6 and Windows 10 and now find that I cannot get Gensmarts to load my FH project file ( I have saved it in Gedcom format).