[Gedcom-parse-devel] Re: gedcom-parse

[Steve S. <Ste...@su...>]

Thanks, Peter,

I have a working version of gedcom-parse now that supports TYPE, FONE 
and ROMN subfields in NAME, and also FONE & ROMN in PLAC.
I think I'll finish adding all of the 5.5.1 features, before I send 
diffs.  I'm adding these as optional features, and I added an option
to turn them on, so you can process "generic" 5.5.1 compliant GEDCOMs.

One thing I noticed that I don't understand is a call to 
gedcom_set_compat_options(0) in gom_parse_file().  I've commented this
out in my working version, since I want to use 
getcom_set_compat_options() from, e.g. gedcom-sanitize, to enable 5.5.1 
compatibility.
Do you know why this is being called?  Doesn't seem to make sense to me.

I would also like to join genes, though I'm focusing on gedcom-parse at 
the moment.

I did notice one problem with genes.  When I have Chinese names,which 
are formed like
    1 NAME /Surname/Givenname
rather than the western tradition of Givenname/Surname/, genes seems to 
be losing the
given name, or at least it is not displayed.  Probably the code to parse 
the name did not anticipate that they might be reversed.
Please be sure the name order from the gedcom file is preserved when 
displaying these names, otherwise Asian notes will be mangled.

-steve


Peter Verthez wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
>> I would like to join the gedcom-parse developer team.  I am
>> working on genealogy software which can support Chinese
>> names, and would like to help work on gedcom-parse and genes.
>>
>
> I've added you as a developer for gedcom-parse.  I cannot add you
> as a developer to genes myself, because Geert Vantienen (firework)
> is the administrator, but I've put him on CC.  I'm sure he will
> add you (neither of us know Chinese, so that is a welcome addition
> :-))
>
> My development has gone down a bit the last month; I was mainly
> cleaning up the documentation for gedcom-parse (put it in Doxygen).
> So if you want to tackle the bug you have submitted, be my guest.
>
> Geert and I know each other personally, so we did most of the
> discussions in private, but I propose we use the mailing list
> gedcom-parse-devel now for discussions.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.


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