Re: Change encoding?

[Karel Novotny]

I am using Ubuntu. Ok. I didn't know it is operating system dependent.
Changing the keyboard layout won't work in this case then :(

thanks anyway

karel

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 17:45 +0900, John Darrington wrote:
> Which operating system are you using?  Setting environment variables
> is operating system dependent.     The command I gave you should work
> for nearly all GNU/Linux systems.   If you're using a different OS, 
> then you need to read the instructions for that (or ask someone who
> knows).
> 
> J'
> 
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:49:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote:
>      Thanks for prompt help, John.
>      
>      I am using Gui version (psppire) where can I type the export command you
>      mention. Or is that possible only in command line version?
>      
>      It would be great to be able to make this change permanently since I am
>      going to be working only with files in one particular (non-english)
>      encoding. Is there a way to do this?
>      
>      thanks for any tips
>      
>      karel
>      
>      
>      
>      On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:22 +0900, John Darrington wrote:
>      > Pspp assumes that the sav file's encoding is the same as the current
>      > locale.  If that's not true, then you can change the LC_CTYPE 
> environment
>      > variable to match the encoding of the file.
>      > 
>      > 
>      > For example, the file at 
>      > http://savannah.gnu.org/file/databas.sav?file_id=1906 is encoded
>      > in ISO-8859-1, whereas my system default is UTF-8.    When I open it,
>      > the non-ascii characters appear as '?'.  But if I type 
>      > "export LC_CTYPE=en_AU.ISO-8859-1" then it displays properly.
>      > 
>      > Hope this helps.
>      > 
>      > J'
>      > 
>      > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:52:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote:
>      >      Hello all,
>      >      
>      >      Anyone can advise me how to change encoding in PSPP so as not to 
> load
>      >      files with non-english characters crooked when loading a sav file?
>      >      
>      >      thanks
>      >      
>      >      karel
>      > 
>      
>      
>      
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