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Genealogy research with Gramps

Genealogy research with Gramps

Posted Jul 17, 2014 8:44 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)
In reply to: Genealogy research with Gramps by mathstuf
Parent article: Genealogy research with Gramps

Internationalization is another major focus of Gramps, exploiting a niche that proprietary software makers tend to avoid.
This project's niche seems to be at the intersection of all kinds of hairy i18n problems. Names (with local script and Romanization variants), addresses changing over time, cultural differences (cousins living together vs. the more Western nuclear family), calendars (both across time and between countries), and I'm sure I'm missing more. Hats off on making it a priority to actually tackle the problem rather than just sweeping it under the (AmeriEuro-shaped) rug.
It is not only local script vs. Romanization for names, and addresses changing over time, but also locale-specific details, for example what are parts of the name (how the name is composed) and parts of the address:


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