Re: fixed data file

2018-02-04 Thread Dr. Oliver Walter
Dear Ms Kahf, great that I could help you. I would use short nouns, maybe abbreviated, to describe the item content. For example, instead of using "Wahrscheinlichkeit_es_zu_kaufenA": "KaufwahrschA". Instead of, for example: "Eignung_Moebelbau": "EignMoeb" . The variable name need not to descr

Re: fixed data file

2018-02-04 Thread Meimuna Kahf
Dear Dr. Oliver Walter thank you very very much. It really solved my problem, i can open the file again. I will not to use „Umlaute“ again in pspp, new lecture for me :) As i mentioned its my first time working with PSPP so how would you recommend to choose the names of the variables so it would

Re: fixed data file

2018-02-04 Thread Dr. Oliver Walter
Thank you for your opinion. But PSPP reported problems with variable names which contains umlauts when I opened the data file before I fixed the problem by changing the variable names. Am 04.02.2018 um 19:31 schrieb John Darrington: I have often used umlauts in variable names, and never had p

Re: fixed data file

2018-02-04 Thread John Darrington
I have often used umlauts in variable names, and never had problems. I've also experimented with Chinese and other exotic characters and everything works fine for me. That error message is not one that PSPP generates. It looks like it is coming from the operating system. So I think this must be

Re: fixed data file

2018-02-04 Thread Dr. Oliver Walter
Dear Ms Kahf, PSPP does not seem to like variable names which include German umlauts (Umlaute) such as ä, ö or ü. I tried to fix your data file and seem to be successful. I send it to you attached to this e-mail. Please check it. BTW: Your choice of variable names is not optimal for data mana