Hi, > My linux runs with UTF-8, and I'm also have the same problem. As we > discovered because of the > non-ascii chars on filename problem, windows never uses Unicode, so > probably .sav files also don`t uses. > So I think that any OS with UTF-8 will always have this problem. > > And because PSPP claims to be compatible with SPSS, we should use the > same encoding as SPSS, > who sadly uses the windows encoding.
Or - there should be an option when opening/importing file, to set which encoding datafile is using. BTW, I am also using LimeSurvey (http://www.limesurvey.org/), an opensource software for web surveys, and LimeSurvey has an option to export data directly into SPSS. You get data file and syntax file. Syntax file is like this: SET UNICODE=ON. GET DATA /TYPE=TXT /FILE='survey_71999_SPSS_data_file.dat' /DELCASE=LINE /DELIMITERS="," /QUALIFIER="'" /ARRANGEMENT=DELIMITED /FIRSTCASE=1 /IMPORTCASE=ALL /VARIABLES= fname A40 lname A40 attr1 A100 attr2 A100 ... ... I don't know which SPSS version of syntax is that, but PSPP is unable to run this syntax. However, there is an interesting option SET UNICODE=ON at the beginning... bye, Matej _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
