Re: PSPP-BUG: Failure to handle an antique SPSS file containing umlauts in variable names

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Przemek Powalko <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm sorry for this inconvinience. I've sent you a file in a separate email.
> It's quite big so I decided not to bother all other users.

I've now added the ability to specify an encoding in the dialog that File|Open
brings up.  This file appears at first glance to be encoded in iso-8859-1, so
selecting one of the Western European encodings allows it to be opened
successfully.

There are various possible ways to improve the interface--for example,
PSPPIRE could tell you that the encoding was the problem and offer a
selection of possibly valid ones--but this should at least allow the file
to be opened.