Family Historian User Group

I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a problem I have.

Having just subscribed to Family Historian, I tried to import a GEDCOM file of the tree I've built up on the French site GeneaNet.  Most of my ancestors are French and as you'd imagine, many of the names and places include letters with accents on them (e.g. é), but they aren't being imported correctly.

I don't know what to do and help anyone give would be very much appreciated!

Many thanks,

Sabine

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I suspect the file you are importing is in UniCode format which FH does not currently support.

It might be possible to do a search and replace on the gedcom file to convert the accents, but it's not something I have tried.

Sabine,
I tried to load into FH a GEDCOM file converted to Unicode format but I got an error message 'Unrecognised file format...' and nothing was loaded at all.  This makes me think you may have a different problem.

Have you tried viewing your GEDCOM file in a text editor such as Notepad?  If you do, are the characters that should have accents shown with or without accents?  If accents are missing, there may have been a problem with the download from GeneaNet.

I know from my own tree that FH handles accented letters correctly (at least those used in French names).  There have been other postings about how to type accented characters into FH, e.g.:  http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=4044