Here you are

- running this script from the command line (>pspp thai.sps
--syntax-encoding=UTF-8) gives garbled labels
- opening it in the GUI (you need to manually select utf-8) works fine.

Cheers,

Kees





On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:45 PM, John Darrington <
j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> Can you post an example syntax file which provokes the problem?
>
> J'
>
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:09:28PM +1200, Kees Varekamp wrote:
>      Hi there,
>
>      I am trying to run a utf-8 syntax script in PSPP 0.8.2 on win7 64bit,
> but I
>      think there is a problem when I run the a syntax file from the
> command line:
>       --syntax-encoding as a start param does not seem to work:
>
>      I have tried:
>      "C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o
>      log.txt--syntax-encoding=UTF-8
>      "C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o
>      log.txt--syntax-encoding=utf-8
>      "C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o
>      log.txt--syntax-encoding=UTF8
>      "C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o
>      log.txt--syntax-encoding="UTF-8
>      "
>      "C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" --syntax-encoding="UTF-8"
> file.sps -b
>      -o log.txt
>
>      All with no success - my Thai characters get garbled. However, when I
> load
>      the script through the gui (and select UTF-8 from the dialog) it works
>      perfectly. So I think this command line param just doesn't work.
>
>      Thanks,
>
>      Kees
>
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