Re: PSPP-BUG: Failure to handle an antique SPSS file containing umlauts in variable names

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 08:02:13AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:50:32AM +0000, M?ller, Andre wrote:
> > Now, double checked, the guilty party is ZA4209.sav, 
> > and it's location is 
> > https://dbk.gesis.org/dbksearch/download.asp?id=4489
> 
> Thanks, I have the file now, and I will look at it more closely a bit
> later.

This file is just encoded in windows-1252, which must not be the default
encoding on your system.  You can open it with:
        GET 'ZA4209.sav' ENCODING='windows-1252'.
or in the GUI by selecting windows-1252 from the encoding drop down in
the dialog box.