Hi, i opened a bug about this. The problem is specific to the MacOS Bundle which uses the Quartz Backend of gtk. The X11 Version from Macports works.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53066 <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53066> Friedrich > Am 05.02.2018 um 17:44 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:41:04AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 01:57:53PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> 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. >> >> Here is my guess at what happened: >> >> The charset of the machine used to create the file is something other than >> UTF-8, >> and either it has been (inadvertently) set to something incabable of encoding >> the umlauts he was trying to use, or the iconv library on that machine is >> broken. >> >> So the try_recode routine in libpspp/i18n.c failed, and the fallback char, >> which is '?', see line 1167 was substituted. >> >> What I don't understand is how the user could not have noticed something >> amiss at >> the time of data entry. The variable names should have been rejected when >> entered, >> or at least looked very wierd. > > PSPP generally maintains variable names, etc. internally in UTF-8, and I > wonder whether we're not checking that against the charset at all the > appropriate times. I could especially see that happening in the GUI, > where there's an extra layer of indirection. > > But in any case I think the reader and writer should be more robust. > I'll work on that. > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org <mailto:Pspp-users@gnu.org> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users>
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