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Re: Change encoding?
From: |
Karel Novotny |
Subject: |
Re: Change encoding? |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:48:37 -0200 |
I am using Ubuntu. Ok. I didn't know it is operating system dependent.
Changing the keyboard layout won't work in this case then :(
thanks anyway
karel
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 17:45 +0900, John Darrington wrote:
> Which operating system are you using? Setting environment variables
> is operating system dependent. The command I gave you should work
> for nearly all GNU/Linux systems. If you're using a different OS,
> then you need to read the instructions for that (or ask someone who
> knows).
>
> J'
>
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:49:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>
>
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