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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