Thanks for the followup! :-)

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.



On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 15:50, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kees Varekamp <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to read fixed width text data into pspp using
> > DATA LIST  FILE='/home/kees/mnt/mro/Projects/Radar/J10158_Carpet/J10158/
> > 0158chn.EXT'  ENCODING='utf8'  FIXED INTNR 1-8 ...
> >
> > but the utf8 encoding seems to be ignored. Which encodings are supported?
> I
> > need one that supports Simplified and Traditional Chinese, so some
> Unicode
> > flavor would be best I guess
>
> It looks like, for the moment, the way to control the encoding
> in files parsed by DATA LIST is to use SET LOCALE.
>
> I intend to fix this at some point.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>
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