2008-03-30 LifeLines Trouble

I’m looking at my Family stuff again. I’ve used LifeLines on a GNU/Linux box in the past. All I copied to my Mac is the old GEDCOM file. I’m having trouble decoding it correctly.

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Here’s what I had to do to get it to work:

Change

1 CHAR ASCII

to

1 CHAR UTF-8

in my file, because it is in fact UTF-8 encoded.

Run it as follows: llines alex offers to create a new database. Use u o and add the following options:

codeset=UTF-8
GuiCodeset=UTF-8

Import using u r.

The only problem I have now is that the internal ncurses library doesn’t understand multibyte character sets. The right edge of the frame is ragged whenenver the line contains Umlauts. Not good. 🙁

Familienbande on the other hand looks slick, is gratis (but not free as in FreeSoftware), but has issues with my file... :__

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