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 _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
