Re: PSPP-BUG: spanish characters in data-bases

[Ben Pfaff]

Vicente <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm new to PSPP and am testing some of its features, using PSPP version 0.6.2
> under ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.
>
> Well, my data contain fields and labels using Spanish characters -- i.e. á, é,
> í, ó, ú, ü, and ñ -- that were not recognized when I loaded the *.sav
> datafiles; instead, a "?" sign replaced them for. I tried manually changing
> some data and labels and although it seemed to work, the problem resurfaced
> after saving and re-loading the data.  This is a major annoyance for me and I
> guess for anybody using Spanish. I wonder if there's a function or initial
> setting for extended-character support in reading data files, that I couldn't
> figure out or if this is a true bug. (My apologies if this bug has already
> been addressed by someone else, but couldn't find a search function for the
> bugs list pages.)

Hi Vicente.  Thank you for reporting this bug some time ago.

I would like to improve PSPP's support for non-ASCII characters.
It would be great if you could help, by providing a small .sav
file (one or two variables and a few cases, for example) that
include some non-ASCII data that you would like to see work
properly in PSPP, plus a description of what the .sav file
contains.  Then at least I have a useful test case.

Thanks,

Ben.
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