[Gramps-devel] status of Gedcom ANSEL work

[James G. S. (jim) <jg...@sa...>]

I have Gedcom ANSEL import and export working correctly now and should
have a cleaned up commit ready by tomorrow or so.

Compositions of the various "combining characters" including the
precomposed characters as well as the non-precomposed ones work fine in
both ansel-to-unicode and the reverse.

(Somewhat arbitrarily,) I have decided to limit compositions to not
allow multiple combining forms (which a "full level 3" implementation of
unicode would imply.

Multiple combining forms may not have even been envisioned by ANSEL, and
I suspect it's better to get some field testing with the simpler structure.

After this check-in I would like to look at the 3.0 code. I see that
there is a shift to using the codecs module (hooray). What I've learned
in recent days will perhaps allow me to (at least) help review that
code, and maybe contribute as well.

Regards,
..jim