Re: [Gramps-devel] Few little Makefile changes for gramps23

[Kees B. <kee...@xs...>]

Op zaterdag 24 februari 2007 01:43, schreef Don Allingham:
> This is an crash message, not a syntax error. The problem here is that
> I'm working on improving the character set recognition, and I don't have
> every thing set correctly yet. The GEDCOM parser is a two pass parser,
> and it determines the character set on the first pass, and passes the
> information to the second pass so that the second pass can read the data
> correctly.
>=20
> Right now, the first pass is not passing the character set to the second
> pass yet. So any non-UTF8 characters that are found before the
> "CHAR" (character set) token in the GEDCOM file will cause a translation
> error.

Ah, I see. But you (sort of) asked for testers of the GEDCOM import. That's
why I tried.

>=20
> This will be corrected in the near future. Right now, I'm having issues
> of properly detecting UTF16, so the character sets are not fully working
> yet.

Linus Torvalds once said:
 "Sadly, when MS makes a whopper of a mistake (and they do it all too
  often), we're left having to work with the resulting breakage."

UTF-16 is one of those mistakes.

Anyway, support for reading GEDCOM in UTF-16 is needed to enable more people
to switch to Gramps, right? But how much effort is making that worthwhile?

>=20
> However, if you don't have non-UTF8 characters in the first few lines of
> the file (which most files don't have), you should be okay. Typically
> this is a problem for GEDCOM files created by programs that have
> non-ASCII characters in their names or address (these lines appear
> before the CHAR line, so the character set is not set correctly).

That is probably it. My GEDCOM is created by ProGen, and the first lines ar=
e:
0 HEAD
1 SOUR PRO-GEN
2 VERS 3.0b-p12
2 CORP PRO-GEN Genealogie =E1a la Carte
3 WWW www.pro-gen.nl
1 DEST PRO-GEN
1 DATE 23 FEB 2007
1 SUBM @S1@
1 FILE BAKKER.GED
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR ANSEL
0 @S1@ SUBM
1 NAME A.C. Bakker

The CORP line should in fact be "PRO-GEN Genealogie =E0 la Carte".
I'll strip it for the time being, and see how far it goes.

>=20
> Personally, I find this to be a major flaw in GEDCOM.
>=20
> Don
=2D-
Kees