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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] missing header error importing GEDCOM from PAF 5.2
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:01:12 -0800
References: <000b01c61fd1$8e55ee60$0200a8c0@JLSDESKTOP>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c61fd1$8e55ee60$0200a8c0@JLSDESKTOP>


On or about 1/22/2006 08:00 PM a carrier pigeon from Jim Slade delivered:
>I am trying to import a GEDCOM made by PAF 5.2 and keep getting an
>error message
>I have tried both simple and advanced import wizard using TMG v6.05
>but still get the error.
>"Missing header in F:\hslade.ged" what does this error mean?
>
>1 CHAR UTF-8

Unicode! Unicode files, technically, have something like a
two-bye (non-printing) ID code at the beginning of the file. Many
GEDCOM import programs choke on /that/ header, expecting to find the
first "## text" line.


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