So Bill is it true then that for those of who only have western European type names: Jones, Smith, Brown, Yorganson, Perino, Savant, etc.(no special characters) that it is simplar and perhaps better to just go with ASCII? > From: "Bill Linn" <billinn@suscom.net> > Date: 2005/06/29 Wed PM 12:52:07 EDT > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Question on Making Gedcom to import to Other Program than PAF5 > > You are right on track Donna. Other GEDCOM 5.5 and you can use either > depending on what you need. Richard explained this in detail in June. > > "The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is > the simply Roman alphabet. > The ANSEL (American National ? ? of Librarians) is the Roman > alphabet including the diacritical marks that show pronunciation for > European languages. > The UTF-8 (Universal Transfer Function -8) and the Unicode are > similar enough that I do not know the difference. The Unicode system > uses two bytes to allow encoding any of the written languages including > Cyrillic, Hebrew, Korean, Chinese, etc. > Richard L. Halliday" > > Regards, Bill > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Autrey" <autrey@c-zone.net> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:09 AM > Subject: [PAF-5] Question on Making Gedcom to import to Other Program than > PAF5 > > > >A Question. > > > > I want to make a PAF5 Gedcom and export it to another Genealogy Program > > "Ancestral > > Quest." I want to make sure that I have EVERYTHING INCLUDED. > > > > What it the Best Type of Other Gedcom for this???? > > Ansel: ANSI: UTF-8 > > > > Thanks for your Input. > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > > > > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/ > >

Well, it would seem simpler but I have another reason. My web page is designed using DftCom2 which will only recognize ASCII. http://userweb.suscom.net/~billinn/ There are foreign language versions of the program but I don't know how it deals with the special characters. You can go to the developer's site, http://www.dftcom2.co.uk/ and sort through it. Regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: <alanjones10@cox.net> To: "Bill Linn" <billinn@suscom.net>; <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Re: [PAF-5] Question on Making Gedcom to import to Other Program than PAF5 > So Bill is it true then that for those of who only have western European > type names: Jones, Smith, Brown, Yorganson, Perino, Savant, etc.(no > special characters) that it is simplar and perhaps better to just go with > ASCII? > > > >> From: "Bill Linn" <billinn@suscom.net> >> Date: 2005/06/29 Wed PM 12:52:07 EDT >> To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Question on Making Gedcom to import to Other Program >> than PAF5 >> >> You are right on track Donna. Other GEDCOM 5.5 and you can use either >> depending on what you need. Richard explained this in detail in June. >> >> "The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is >> the simply Roman alphabet. >> The ANSEL (American National ? ? of Librarians) is the Roman >> alphabet including the diacritical marks that show pronunciation for >> European languages. >> The UTF-8 (Universal Transfer Function -8) and the Unicode are >> similar enough that I do not know the difference. The Unicode system >> uses two bytes to allow encoding any of the written languages including >> Cyrillic, Hebrew, Korean, Chinese, etc. >> Richard L. Halliday" >> >> Regards, Bill >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Donna Autrey" <autrey@c-zone.net> >> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:09 AM >> Subject: [PAF-5] Question on Making Gedcom to import to Other Program >> than >> PAF5 >> >> >> >A Question. >> > >> > I want to make a PAF5 Gedcom and export it to another Genealogy >> > Program >> > "Ancestral >> > Quest." I want to make sure that I have EVERYTHING INCLUDED. >> > >> > What it the Best Type of Other Gedcom for this???? >> > Ansel: ANSI: UTF-8 >> > >> > Thanks for your Input. >> > >> > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >> > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service >> > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ >> > >> > >> >> >> >> ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >> PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/ >> >> > >