ANSEL is not ANSI in anselAsciiOrUtf8()

[DanCas]

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• Technically, this is illegal, but since ANSEL is an ANSI standard (ANSI Z39.47-1985) let's try it and see if being a little forgiving makes things better.

ANSI as marked in many GEDCOM-files means not the ANSI-standard but the Windows code page. The readable chars are the same in UTF-8. You can read it on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_code_page. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 read detail "Historically, the phrase “ANSI Code Page” (ACP) is used in Windows to refer to various code pages considered as native"......

So it is more correct to see ANSI as a subset of the UTF-8.

In the GEDCOM Standard R 5.5.1 on p 77 you can read also: "Systems using code pages to support diacritical characters, such as the windows ANSI 1252 code page, must convert all characters above character code 0x7F to its ANSEL representation for that code page." And on p 79 you can read. "UNICODE character set or the 8-bit UTF-8 form should be used for multi-language support as soon as operating systems begin providing adequate storage and display support." Knowing that nearly al the computers work with UTF-8, it's beter to use the UTF-8 code to write gedcomfiles.

[frizbog]

Agreed. UTF-8 is a better choice. Making that change now.

[frizbog]

Checked in. Will be included in next release (whenever that is).