Re: [Gramps-users] First impression of GRAMPS

[Greg K. <gr...@ma...>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:15:24PM -0500, Alex Roitman wrote:
> > > I think we may have an option "Attempt to strip non-ascii information"
> > > in a plain text format. If the user choses so, the characters would be
> > > deaccented. We may even have another option "Use TeX commands 
> > > for non-ascii" to go with \l instead of slashed ell and the like.
> > 
> > Yes!  That's all that I've been asking for.  Like you, I don't
> > mean to just be arguing; maybe we don't really disagree after all.
> 
> Alright!
...
> To summarize, my opinion so far is that we may attempt limited lossy 
> conversion from unicode text using latin scripts into ascii/iso-8859-1
> as a user-adjustable option. I would not extend this into anything else
> than the plain text reports though :-)

Let's start with that then.  I've never even liked iso-8859-1 all
that much.  I would be just as happy if the only down-conversion that
you supported was Unicode to iso-646 = 7-bit ASCII.  In any case it's
your project and my only direct request as a user is text reports in
the iso-646 character set.

Let me just note that you can kill four birds with one stone: You can
use almost the same functions to generate iso-646 plain text, iso-646
LaTeX, and ANSEL, and adequately alphabetize words in all Latin-derived
alphabets.  (I don't need LaTeX from GRAMPS at the moment, but if I did,
I would ask for iso-646.)

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