Re: Recommendations? - Probably been answered already

> 
> The one thing that Generations does not sup****t and I would be a little 
> interested in, is the ability to enter Unicode data for names in
non-Latin 
> alphabets.  (Cyrillic and Hebrew aren't doo bad - but one of my
relatives 
> married into a Chinese family.  I have the Unicode values for their
names and I 
> would like to be able to enter these directly - and not just put the
information 
> in as comments with a transliterated name).
> 

Unicode can mean that you need to use UTF-16 encoding, and I don't know 
of any street-level applications that can do that. I might stand 
corrected by someone?

UTF-8 is more common, and I suggest you check with suppliers for the 
acceptance of this standard. There are many differences between UTF-8
and UTF-16, but anything that you can encode in UTF-16 you should be 
able to encode in UTF-8.

It is also quite easy to convert from Unicode to UTF-8.  Simply open 
your Unicode GEDCOM file in Windows Notepad and select "File->Save As.." 
from the menu and choose UTF-8 as the encoding option.  You shouldn't 
lose any of the characters in the translation.

Paul