Re: PSPP::Perl and utf-8 characters

[John Darrington]

Are you sure that what you're putting in is valide UTF-8 ?  I suspect that it 
isn't.


I'm attaching a simple test file, based on your test, which writes some UTF-8 
labels.
The first label is ascii.  The second and third contain european characters, 
the fourth
contains a couple of chinese characters that I copied from some chinese web 
site.

Running this perl fragment produces a .sav file which the latest master version 
reads
perfectly. 

J'


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:23:32PM -0800, Rob Messer wrote:
     Hello,
     
     I am attempting to use PSPP and the PSPP::Perl module to write labels and 
data that contain non-ASCII characters.  Below is a simple test script that 
includes Chinese characters (encoded as UTF-8) in the value labels.  The file 
is created without errors, but when I open it, either in psppire or SPSS 
version 18, the labels appear as garbled text.  I am using the latest 
development version 0.7.2.  Should this be working correctly?  Is anyone else 
having success writing utf-8 via the PSPP::Perl module?  Thanks,
     
     Rob
      
     
     use PSPP;
     
     my $dict = PSPP::Dict->new ();
     
     my $var1 = PSPP::Var->new ($dict, "Q1", (fmt=>PSPP::Fmt::F, width=>2, 
decimals=>0) );
     $var1->add_value_label (0, q|???????????????|);
     $var1->add_value_label (1, q|????????????|);
     
     my $sysfile = PSPP::Sysfile->new ('testfile.sav', $dict);
     $sysfile->close();
     
     
     
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