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

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

Thanks, Geert!

-steve

Geert Vantienen wrote:

> Steve Swales wrote:
>
>> I would also like to join genes, though I'm focusing on gedcom-parse 
>> at the moment.
>
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> I have added you to  genes as a developer.
> It will still take some time before I have time enough to continue 
> with the
> development of genes. But I already put some changes in CVS and I planned
> to update the handling (reading and writing) of dates in a better way, 
> before
> doing a next release.
>
> Kind regards,
> Geert
>
>> 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.
>
>
> I have to look at it...
>

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