RE: how to merge sav files containing unicode?

[Stuart McKenzie]

Hi John

Thanks for the response

Both show UTF-8 so there shouldn't be any issue with merging them.

That being said I've reworked my logic and no longer need to merge them -
however it does strike me as odd that this causes an issue.

Regards
Stuart


-----Original Message-----
From: John Darrington [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2014 7:20 PM
To: Stuart McKenzie
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: how to merge sav files containing unicode?

What are the encodings of file1.sav and file2.sav ?
Use the SYSFILE INFO command to find out (in the graphic user interface
available under File|Display File Information|External File)

J'

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Stuart McKenzie wrote:
     Version: 0.8.1-g0343d5
     OS Windows 7 64 bit

     Hi

     I?m running the following syntax file against PSPP

     ADD FILE FILE="file1.sav" /FILE="file2.sav"
     SAVE /OUTFILE=" merged.sav"

     Each of these files contains UNICODE string character content (eg
     Vietnamese , Japanese, Chinese characters).

     Output of the operation yields a) the following warnings

     ?warning: Combining files with incompatible encodings. String data
may not
     be represented correctly.?

     In the resultant file (merge.sav) the character content is not
correct (as
     per the warning above) . I?ve trolled through the help content on the
web
     but I?ve not been able to see any other commands to specific the
encoding,
     instructions  on how to handle the encoding or warnings as to what
     encodings will cause an error.

     Any suggestions gratefully received.

     Regards
     Stuart

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