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.
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... :__
#LifeLines #Genealogy