Re: Non-ascii character representation [Was Re: Stable 20090129 compiled to windows]

[Michel Boaventura]

Seems like you are right. The file opens without problems and shows
all non-ascii chars. I guess it`s another problem then.
Trying with diferent files, in only some of then pspp says:

The PSPP processing engine reported the following message:
PSPP warning: "C:\SETOP FINAL_01_12.sav" near offset 0x7a68:
Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 8.

But in other files it works without problem. What this error means?

2009/2/4 John Darrington <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:12:27PM -0200, Michel Boaventura wrote:
>
>     Other issue is that the program doesn't deal with Latin characters,
>     like "???" both in filename and label/var name.
>
>
> Let's leave the issue of filenames to one side for the moment.
>
> Non-ascii characters in label names, variable names and strings
> *should* be properly dealt with.  However issues can arise if the
> program is told that a string has one particular coding when, in fact,
> it has another.  (This is an unfortunate fact of history).
>
> I'm aware that non-ascii strings in syntax files might not be
> correctly interpreted, but data entered into the gui should be
> interpreted correctly. (subject to correct encoding)
>
>
> Can you elaborate a little more on the problems you've experienced?
>
> What is a typical use case where a Brazilian user will experience
> problems?
>
>
> If you download the file at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/file/databas.sav?file_id=1906 do you see it
> displayed correctly?  (I have to run "export LANG=en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
> since that file is encoded in latin1 whereas my system default is
> UTF8)
>
>
> J'
>
>
>
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