OK thanks for that.

I'll figure out another way to load the data then - probably utf-8 csv.

Thanks,

Kees

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 16:34, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kees Varekamp <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > It doesnt help though :-(
> >
> > Now i've got
> > SET LOCALE='UTF-8'.
> > DATA LIST FILE='/home/kees/mnt/mro/Projects/Radar/J10158_Carpet/J10158/
> > 0158chn.EXT' FIXED INTNR 1-8 ..
> >
> > This gives me lots of errors like this one for example:
> > warning: Data for variable S1_1 is not valid as format F: Field contents
> are
> > not numeric.
> >
> > Which makes me think that the multibyte characters are not correctly
> read,
> > causing the data to be shifted. If I convert the file to ascii it reads
> OK,
> > but then (obviously) the Chinese will be garbled.
>
> It interprets the column positions as byte offsets within a line.
> It's inconvenient and doesn't make sense to me, but that's
> actually what SPSS does too, if I properly recall the results of
> experiments I did a while back.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>
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