On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:56:54AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:18:01PM -0400, Ricardo Pietrobon wrote: > > Hi, I am new to pspp, and am trying to open a .sav file and then export > > it's dictionary. Opening works, well, but the export command returns the > > following: > > > > PSPP> get file='data.sav' > > > EXPORT > > warning: `data.sav': This system file does not indicate its own character > > encoding. Using default encoding UTF-8. For best results, specify an > > encoding > > explicitly. Use SYSFILE INFO with ENCODING="DETECT" to analyze the possible > > encodings. > > > > error: `data.sav' near offset 0x9818: Invalid variable name `BRA?O'. > > PSPP> > > > > > > The file contains labels in Portuguese and so utf-8 should theoretically be > > just fine. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? > > A few comments. > > The error you're seeing is from opening the file, you just didn't > include a trailing . on the GET command so PSPP had to read the > beginning of the next command to realize that the GET was complete. > > The particular error message indicates that the file is not in UTF-8. > As the error message says, use SYSFILE INFO with ENCODING="DETECT" to > analyze the possible encodings.
Oh, also, EXPORT probably isn't what you want. It isn't really useful since hardly anything other than SPSS or PSPP can read what it writes. _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
