Re: Change encoding?

[Karel Novotny]

Thanks for prompt help, John.

I am using Gui version (psppire) where can I type the export command you
mention. Or is that possible only in command line version?

It would be great to be able to make this change permanently since I am
going to be working only with files in one particular (non-english)
encoding. Is there a way to do this?

thanks for any tips

karel



On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:22 +0900, John Darrington wrote:
> Pspp assumes that the sav file's encoding is the same as the current
> locale.  If that's not true, then you can change the LC_CTYPE environment
> variable to match the encoding of the file.
> 
> 
> For example, the file at 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/file/databas.sav?file_id=1906 is encoded
> in ISO-8859-1, whereas my system default is UTF-8.    When I open it,
> the non-ascii characters appear as '?'.  But if I type 
> "export LC_CTYPE=en_AU.ISO-8859-1" then it displays properly.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> J'
> 
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:52:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote:
>      Hello all,
>      
>      Anyone can advise me how to change encoding in PSPP so as not to load
>      files with non-english characters crooked when loading a sav file?
>      
>      thanks
>      
>      karel
>