You are completely right - it looks fine now!

Awesome, thanks.

Kees


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 09:09:28PM +1200, Kees Varekamp wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The encoding of a syntax file is independent of the encoding of the
> active file.  --syntax-encoding controls the former.  "SET LOCALE"
> controls the latter.  If you add "SET LOCALE='utf-8'" to the top of your
> syntax file, it ought to work as expected.  (Both encodings default to
> the system locale, so switching to a UTF-8 locale should also work.)
>



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