Re: status of UTF-8 support?

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:51:56PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     Rob Messer <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > What is the current status of support for including UTF-8 characters
     > in PSPP output?  My company is using the Perl interface to import
     > survey data into PSPP, and generally it works very well.  However,
     > we've never been able to use it when our dataset includes labels and
     > records in languages like Japanese and Chinese.  I know there have
     > been some recent updates to PSPP, so last week we upgraded to 0.7.5
     > and tried that, but it still didn't seem to work for our test Japanese
     > and Chinese data.  Is it supposed to be supported?  And if not in
     > 0.7.5, perhaps in the latest development snapshot?  Thanks,
     
     John Darrington and I talked about this briefly in IRC this
     morning.  We didn't know a reason that UTF-8 shouldn't work.
     
I had another look today and have to modify my opinion.  Currently, non-ascii
characters will not work with the perl module.   :(

J'


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