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Louis, Having played with both Mysql & Sqlite, I can well understand - specially since I am not the one who has to do the work :-)

Thank you for the latest version - haven't tried it much as yet, but I'd like to add a comment re you choice of database. As well for the good analysis if the state of affairs of some of the current apps. While I can see the attractiveness of Sqlite, it may turn out to be not the best if you ever are going ...

Thank you, Louis. It is good to know it was something rather uncommon; just the same, it needs to be handled.

My apologies for not being clear enough. My main interest was really whether you or anyone else ever found out where the problem originated. Was it RootsMagic (editing) or export or some cut & paste by the user (and then it would be good to know what application it was cau & pasted from - presumably ...

I'd be curious what the specified file encoding was and whether the actual encoding agreed with that :-) Also it'd be interested if, where and how the issue was resolved - i.e. just a copy & paste problem, along with a loose GEDCOM output conversion?

Curiously, I am just now also preoccupied with SOURces in trying to 'coerce' my app to make it easier to add/maintain/check the source linkages. One thing that seems a possible problem to me, based on my current knowledge of the GEDCOM standard: with SOURce records containing NOTEs and NOTEs containing ...

Looks like the book is still available, though I don't know how specific it is to PAF, which I no longer use actively. The group still seems to be active - judging by their calendar of meetings and events. See: http://svpafug.org/index.html By now I have a better idea of what I should do, but am often ...

Louis, I very much agree that support for sources have been reasonably well covered in GEDCOM - especially, considering when the standard was 'published'. The (very evident) problem is that the people who write/wrote the software and most of those who used it, were really only name collectors and either, ...

Sent a shortened version of the files which shows the problem to you off-list. It has no BOM but is encoded as UTF-8 and is recognized by Behold as UTF-8 and has 1 CHAR UTF-8 even so, Behold complains about the missing BOM. But that is supposed to be one of the advantages of UTF-8 - BOM not required. ;-) even ...

I have just run into the same issue, but with text containing multi-byte UTF-8 characters. In this case, Behold 1.0.5.1 does not seem to count the characters correctly. It complains: 23580: 2 CONT hat gegenwärtig 750• Einwohner und war früher eine rein landwirtschaftlich orientierte Landgemeinde ...