Comments on: Dying For Diacriticals … Beyond ASCII — #HowTo, #Genealogy, #Polish http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/dying-for-diacriticals-beyond-ascii-howto-genealogy-polish/ A Muse-ing Thu, 23 May 2013 13:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Genealogy Indexer – Logan Kleinwak — #Genealogy, #Historical, #Directories, #Military, #Yizkor | Stanczyk – Internet Muse http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/dying-for-diacriticals-beyond-ascii-howto-genealogy-polish/#comment-991 Thu, 03 May 2012 14:37:30 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=2195#comment-991 [...] for articles or data entry into genealogy software. You may remember, I wrote about that in “Dying for Diacriticals” or any of the other dozen articles (some of which cover [...]

]]> By: Diacritical Redux – Ancestry GEDCOM — #Genealogy, #Technology | Stanczyk – Internet Muse http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/dying-for-diacriticals-beyond-ascii-howto-genealogy-polish/#comment-807 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:12:36 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=2195#comment-807 [...] (that I assumed you have been working so hard to add since my aritcle on Tuesday,  ”Dying For Diacriticals“)? I’ll give you a HINT, it is the #1 Genealogy Website  – Yes,  it is [...]

]]> By: David A Knight http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/dying-for-diacriticals-beyond-ascii-howto-genealogy-polish/#comment-799 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:35:00 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=2195#comment-799 Small correction.

ASCII is 7 bit, not 8. UTF-8 will fail if it encounters a character > 127 in HEAD as that value indicates that the character is more than 1 octet in UTF-8. This could very easily happen with NAME, CORP, ADDR etc. in HEAD prior to the CHAR tag informing you of the actual character set in use.

The 8 bit character sets you will normally see are ANSI with one of the various codepages.

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David,
Yes, you are correct. Thanks for helping me out -- ASCII is indeed 7 bit (0-127 decimal) ANSI standard. When I wrote 8bit Ascii, I was meaning the ISO_8859_ 1/2 code pages (or Windows-1250) which provided the diacriticals by using the 8th bit to map Ascii codes for the characters 128-255 decimal.

--Stanczyk ]

]]> By: Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/dying-for-diacriticals-beyond-ascii-howto-genealogy-polish/#comment-798 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:54:44 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=2195#comment-798 “UTF-8 can have that byte-order-mark (BOM) at the front of our gedcom or not and it is still UTF-8 ” – I didn’t know that. Thanks.

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