You need to set your SPSS locale to Japanese. This requires you to have Japanese support in your Windows OS, which can be added to most Windows versions if not already there.
Start with
SET LOCALE=Japanese.
If this works, then you will have to change the fonts in the Data Editor and output windows in order to see the text. (Try MS Mincho or MS Gothic with the script set to Japanese). If your Windows system is not itself in a Japanese locale (which it probably isn't) some user interface text will not display properly, but the output and data editor will behave correctly if you change the fonts appropriately.
SPSS 16 makes this much easier, but you can do it in 14 or 15 as well with some limitations.
HTH,
Jon Peck
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:11 AM
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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Translation
Hi Team:
I have English based SPSS 14. In one of the survey I am receiving open
end text in Japanese. However, when I try to import that text SPSS does
not recognize Japanese text and so does not import the string text.
Any solution?
MS
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