Charlotte: 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 pronounciation 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 Charlotte Geier wrote: > I'd never noticed that 'Other Gedcom 5.5' option until you mentioned > it, Bill. How does one know which character set to use? > > Thanks, > > Charlotte