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+# $Id$
+# $Name$
+
+# Mapping of charsets for gedcom parsing
+# Each line contains (separated by whitespace):
+# - the gedcom name
+# - a token identifying the width of characters and the ordering;
+# currently supported values: 1, 2_LOHI, 2_HILO
+# - the iconv name of the charset
+
+# First the encodings supported by the GEDCOM standard
+UNICODE 2_LOHI UNICODELITTLE
+UNICODE 2_HILO UNICODEBIG
+ASCII 1 ASCII
+ANSEL 1 ANSEL
+
+# Then some very frequently used non-standard encodings:
+# Note that CP1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, so that is covered too
+ANSI 1 CP1252