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Re: error exporting data dictionary
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: error exporting data dictionary |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:58:07 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:56:54AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:18:01PM -0400, Ricardo Pietrobon wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to pspp, and am trying to open a .sav file and then export
> > it's dictionary. Opening works, well, but the export command returns the
> > following:
> >
> > PSPP> get file='data.sav'
> > > EXPORT
> > warning: `data.sav': This system file does not indicate its own character
> > encoding. Using default encoding UTF-8. For best results, specify an
> > encoding
> > explicitly. Use SYSFILE INFO with ENCODING="DETECT" to analyze the possible
> > encodings.
> >
> > error: `data.sav' near offset 0x9818: Invalid variable name `BRA?O'.
> > PSPP>
> >
> >
> > The file contains labels in Portuguese and so utf-8 should theoretically be
> > just fine. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?
>
> A few comments.
>
> The error you're seeing is from opening the file, you just didn't
> include a trailing . on the GET command so PSPP had to read the
> beginning of the next command to realize that the GET was complete.
>
> The particular error message indicates that the file is not in UTF-8.
> As the error message says, use SYSFILE INFO with ENCODING="DETECT" to
> analyze the possible encodings.
Oh, also, EXPORT probably isn't what you want. It isn't really useful
since hardly anything other than SPSS or PSPP can read what it writes.