Re: status of UTF-8 support?

[Rob Messer]

Ok, well then maybe you don't need this example any longer, but here it is 
anyway.  The script we ran was from this posting last year:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2009-12/msg00010.html

The .sav file opens fine, but the non-ascii characters appear as ??? in the 
PSPP gui and the trial version of SPSS.

Anyway, if there is some version of PSPP that does support UTF-8, let me know, 
or if it is planned for a future release any info you have there would be 
helpful as well.  Thanks for your efforts,

Rob

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On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:40 AM, John Darrington wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:51:56PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>     Rob Messer writes:
> 
>> What is the current status of support for including UTF-8 characters
>> in PSPP output?  My company is using the Perl interface to import
>> survey data into PSPP, and generally it works very well.  However,
>> we've never been able to use it when our dataset includes labels and
>> records in languages like Japanese and Chinese.  I know there have
>> been some recent updates to PSPP, so last week we upgraded to 0.7.5
>> and tried that, but it still didn't seem to work for our test Japanese
>> and Chinese data.  Is it supposed to be supported?  And if not in
>> 0.7.5, perhaps in the latest development snapshot?  Thanks,
> 
>     John Darrington and I talked about this briefly in IRC this
>     morning.  We didn't know a reason that UTF-8 shouldn't work.
> 
> I had another look today and have to modify my opinion.  Currently, non-ascii
> characters will not work with the perl module.   :(
> 
> J'
> 
>