Re: error opening a pspp file

[Ben Pfaff]

Well, in the end the file shows two things:

        (1) PSPP should not write a file that it cannot read later: if
        you look at the raw file, it contains question marks.  This
        means that PSPP output routines should be more careful about
        insisting on writing the file in a character set that is
        acceptable for later reading.

        (2) PSPP should be able to read files that do contain bad
        variable names, probably by replacing unacceptable bytes by some
        kind of placeholder like X.

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 10:25:50PM +0100, Dr. Oliver Walter wrote:
> As I wrote at the beginning and in my answer to John Darrington: The problem
> had to do with umlauts in German variable names. These umlauts were there
> where you see question marks in the variable names, variable labels and
> variable codes.
> 
> 
> Am 04.02.2018 um 22:19 schrieb Ben Pfaff:
> >On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 03:18:30PM +0100, Meimuna Kahf wrote:
> >>yesterday i worked for the first time with pspp and i inserted all my
> >>data for a seminar into pspp. A just saved it all the time and at the
> >>end. It took about the whole day and today i wanted to open the file
> >>and i became the error in the attachment. I also put the file in the
> >>attachment
> >This data file is really weird because it was written by PSPP but PSPP
> >wrote it really badly, translating all non-ASCII characters into ASCII
> >as question marks.  Really it should have been written as ISO-8859-1 or
> >UTF-8.  What locale and character set do you have configured on your
> >host?
> >
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