On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, EJ Nikelski wrote: > > Your suggestion that the unprintable characters represent UTF-8 encoded > Unicode left and right double quotes also appears correct. Now, although > the suggested work-around may well help, the foreign package does seem > to be creating a corrupted file. That is, an entirely 8-bit ASCII file > containing embedded UTF-8 double quotes is not valid by any standard -- > and is thus unreadable by any editor on any platform. Perhaps I should > look into filing a bug report on this to the foreign package maintainer. >
It is a bug and has been fixed, but this isn't the reason. It's a bug because the format is wrong for SPSS. The file is perfectly valid UTF-8: all the characters other than the double quotes are 7-bit ASCII and so have the same representation in UTF-8. -thomas ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html