Re: UTF-8 and Windows

[John Darrington]

0.6.1 doesn't do a very good job of dealing with UTF-8 characters.
In particular, .SAV files aren't given the record which identifies
the encoding of the  data.

I suggest that you try the latest "master snapshot" from 
http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/ which stores strings internally as UTF-8
and correctly writes .SAV files with the encoding of the file.
Psppire should also display all characters correctly in that version.

J'

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Robert Westlund wrote:
> 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
>
>
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