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This is not a font problem. You might
as well change those back to the default fonts, which can handle Japanese
just fine.
You have an encoding problem. With
the mix of languages you have, you need to use Unicode: no code page would
work for Japanese and European languages, since those languages will have
accented characters that are not present in the Japanese code page such
as e with acute accent. You don't need any special Windows language
packs.
It isn't clear, though what you are
starting with. You say "The file was
pulled as a .sav in UTF-8".
What does that mean? If this sav file was generated by some
other application, it could be that the encoding is marked incorrectly
in the sav file. What was the actual input to creating the sav file?
If that was text or some other non-SPSS source, there would have
been some assumption made about the encoding at that point. The file
might have been read as code page when it was actually UTF-8 or some other
Unicode encoding such as UTF-16. Or it might have actually been in
UTF-8 but was read as if it was code page. In most cases there would
have been a conversion based on the assumption or declared input encoding.
If that was wrong, which sounds likely, it can't be fixed without
going back to that source and reading it again with the correct input encoding
declaration.
If you want to send me some of the inputs
and the sav file, I can probably figure out what went wrong.
Regards,
Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
[hidden email]
phone: 720-342-5621
From:
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To:
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Date:
05/22/2013 04:37 PM
Subject:
[SPSSX-L] Problem
displaying Japanese characters,
already set locale and Unicode.
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Discussion" <[hidden email]>
Hello,
I've searched this news group and the web yet have not found a solution
to
my problem.
System: Windows 7 Professional and SPSS 18.0.0.
I have a data set that includes verbatim responses in different languages,
English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The problem is with
the
open end responses containing Japanese characters. While some Japanese
characters show up, non-Japanese characters are mixed within these responses
as well (e.g. question marks, circles, check marks, arrows).
I've tried suggestions from other threads: I've set Unicode on, set locale
to Japanese in both SPSS and my Windows settings, and the problem persists.
I used the Shift_JIS and windows-932 codepacks, changed the fonts in SPSS
to
both Arial MS Unicode and MS Mincho as well as set the language in SPSS
to
Japanese. I had a native Japanese speaker look at the characters
and
confirm that some of the characters are Japanese, but the text is gibberish
and suggested it was a problem that usually has to do with the encoding.
The file was pulled as a .sav in UTF-8 (Unicode) and I've already run the
syntax to confirm that Unicode mode is on and the Japanese encoding is
being
used. I've found Japanese text online and have copy/pasted into Notepad
so
I don't think it's a language pack issue. I've even tried partitioning
the
Japanese respondents into a separate file to no avail.
Is there anything that I'm leaving out? Has anyone experienced similar
issues? I'm at wits end.
Many thanks in advance,
Jason
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