UTF-8 and Windows

[Robert Westlund]

Hello,

I have a Linux program that creates a pspp input file containing UTF-8  
characters, which I run the file through pspp 0.6.1 (also on Linux) to  
create a SAV file.  When I open this file in psppire on my Mac (US  
English), it displays the Unicode characters perfectly, both in the  
data and variables.  However, opening this same file in psppire or  
SPSS 16-17 on Windows XP or Vista displays gibberish for those  
characters, regardless of the region I choose in the Regional control  
panel.  I've also tried adding the UTF-8 BOM to the beginning of the  
file, with no success.  With a BOM, the same data as CSV or Excel XLS  
also works fine.  If the "gibberish" is pasted into a text file and  
saved as UTF-8, it displays correctly, which leads me to believe that  
there is something that is causing Windows/SPSS/pspp to not interpret  
the characters as UTF-8.

I've searched the pspp archives, and found other people have some  
issues with UTF-8, and the answer is invariably that it is dependent  
on your system locale, which, as I mention above, I tried.  However,  
Windows is not my specialty.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or why the same SAV file  
works fine on the Mac but not Windows?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Rob