I must be missing something obvious here: According to the help page for read.spss, the reencode option is only active when R is run under a UTF-8 locale.
read.spss can only import the SPSS file when run under a iso88591(5) locale, under a UTF-8 locale I get: Error in read.spss("wo.sav") : error reading system-file header In addition: Warning message: In read.spss("wo.sav") : wo.sav: position 143: Variable name begins with invalid character This is under Debian GNU/Linux, the stable release. foreign is version 8.27 -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <h...@sociologi.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E
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