Starting with version 16, SPSS provides full Unicode
support. Prior versions use only code page character sets. That
means that you are limited to one character set at a time, so unless your four
languages all use the same code page, you can’t work with them in a
single dataset unless you have a newer version.
There are two Chinese code pages (traditional (Taiwan) and
simplified (PRC). These code pages accommodate plain roman characters but
not accented characters nor other Asian character sets (Korean, Japanese, …).
If you can’t upgrade, the only choice would be to
partition the data and work with each character set separately if you need to
preserve the text. If you do that, be sure to set the SPSS locale to
match and change the font appropriately for each.
HTH,
Jon Peck
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mario Giesel
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:22 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [SPSSX-L] Importing UTF-8 into SPSS
we struggle with a
problem reading text data (UTF-8 format) into SPSS and keeping the respective
language characters (4 languages including chinese). External data are
Excel or maybe xml format. We've got SPSS 15. Who can help?
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