Editing GEDCOM (section)

===Internationalization===
The GEDCOM standard supports internationalization in several ways. First, newer versions of the standard allow data to be stored in Unicode (or, more recently, UTF-8), so text in any language can be stored.<ref>GEDCOM Standard 5.5, p. 45.</ref>  Secondly, in the same way that one can have multiple events on a person, GEDCOM allows one to have multiple names for a person,<ref>GEDCOM Standard 5.5, p. 27.</ref> so names can be stored in multiple languages, although there is no standardized way to indicate which instance is in which language.  Finally, in version 5.5.1, the NAME field also supports a phonetic variation (FONE) and a romanized variation (ROMN) of the name.<ref>GEDCOM Draft 5.5.1, p. 38</ref>