0.6.1 doesn't do a very good job of dealing with UTF-8 characters. In particular, .SAV files aren't given the record which identifies the encoding of the data.
I suggest that you try the latest "master snapshot" from http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/ which stores strings internally as UTF-8 and correctly writes .SAV files with the encoding of the file. Psppire should also display all characters correctly in that version. J' On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Robert Westlund wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Linux program that creates a pspp input file containing UTF-8 > characters, which I run the file through pspp 0.6.1 (also on Linux) to > create a SAV file. When I open this file in psppire on my Mac (US > English), it displays the Unicode characters perfectly, both in the data > and variables. However, opening this same file in psppire or SPSS 16-17 > on Windows XP or Vista displays gibberish for those characters, > regardless of the region I choose in the Regional control panel. I've > also tried adding the UTF-8 BOM to the beginning of the file, with no > success. With a BOM, the same data as CSV or Excel XLS also works fine. > If the "gibberish" is pasted into a text file and saved as UTF-8, it > displays correctly, which leads me to believe that there is something > that is causing Windows/SPSS/pspp to not interpret the characters as > UTF-8. > > I've searched the pspp archives, and found other people have some issues > with UTF-8, and the answer is invariably that it is dependent on your > system locale, which, as I mention above, I tried. However, Windows is > not my specialty. > > Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or why the same SAV file works > fine on the Mac but not Windows? > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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