severity 432409 minor tags 432409 + upstream thanks On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:38 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > - Importing a gedcom file with a line "1 SEX MF" gets you a male person.
This is not valid gedcom: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gcch2.htm#SEX_VALUE The fact that lifelines exports this implies a bug in lifelines. > (This is what lifelines uses by default). Having it empty does > properly get you an unknown gender. This would be proper gedcom, and we handle that. > Note that the gedcom 5.5 standard only has "M" or "F" while the 5.5.1 > draft actually added an "U" for it. I suggest that if it's different > from "M" or "F" you make it unknown. As you say, the 5.5.1 is a draft. That said, we could still probably parse U. It would be a wishlist item, not a bug :-) Filed with the upstream tracker: http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=1112 > - Various reports treat an unknown gender differently: > Examples: > - "Reports->view->summary of the database" counts them as male. > - "Reports->Text->Complete individual report" prints them as female. > - "Reports->Webpage->Narrative web site" properly prints them as > unknown. This is the second issue. Filed with the upstream tracker: http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=1113 -- Alexander Roitman http://gramps-project.org
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