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missing INDI.NAME.LANG #167

Open dthaler opened 2 years ago

dthaler commented 2 years ago

Discussed in https://github.com/FamilySearch/GEDCOM/discussions/108

Originally posted by **albertemmerich** December 27, 2021 starting to use the new GEDCOM 7 version of program, I am asking why INDI.NAME does not have a substructure LANG at all, but for every substructure TRAN you must give LANG. By this we cannot document in which language the (main) NAME is given. I have a problem with this, as some of my ancestors lived in French occupied area, and the documents show French names. If I take the original name from document to be the first, I cannot add it to be French. This gives some more problems, as checking the sex of a person against its givn names depends on the language. French "Auguste" is male, German "Auguste" is female. So if I cannot put the language to the NAME of a person in a structured way, any automatic check for conforming sex to givn will not work.
dthaler commented 2 years ago

Related to but different from issue #83

WGroleau commented 1 year ago

Also, in some languages, the same name is inflected for gender and/or case.

tychonievich commented 1 year ago

Resolved starting in 7.1 by PR #126