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Kerry Raymond  
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 More options Feb 5 2007, 3:32 am
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.computing
From: "Kerry Raymond" <kraym...@iprimus.com.au>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:32:07 +1000
Local: Mon, Feb 5 2007 3:32 am
Subject: Re: GEDCOM 5.5: how to identify religions with the RELI token

>> I try to understand how the religion of a person is represented in
>> GEDCOM 5.5. I came across the RELI token, but could not find any
>> standardized values for this token. In some GEDCOM files I find
>> localized descriptions of the religion, but it seems to me that such a
>> localized version is not suitable if GEDCOM files are exchanged across
>> language boundaries.

It's not just the RELI field, but just about every field in GEDCOM that
lacks standardised representations (even in one language), let alone
several. Places, date formats etc all vary between software program and
personal usage.

Kerry


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