On 02-27-2013 06:50, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > I've seen a lot of references to really old versions of GEDCOM. GEDCOM > 5.5.1 seems to satisfy my immediate needs[1], but has been in draft > status for a very long time. GEDCOM 6 is still a work in progress and GEDCOM 6--feh! It merely replaces the syntactic layer with XML, keeping the semantic model unchanged. ALL of the flaws of earlier GEDCOMs remain. > I'm not sure where GEDCOM-X is. What is the prognosis for the major > players to support at least GEDCOM 5.5.1 in UTF-8? > > [1] E.g., storing both a secular and a religous name, storing a > romanized transliteration of a name in a non-roman script, > storing a date in two different calendars. I don't know your definition of "major player" but I know that webtrees and PHPGedView have always supported--nay, preferred--UTF-8 And they also support all the other things you asked for. -- Wes Groleau “There are more people worthy of blame than there is blame to go around."