Warning 849 in SPSS 27

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Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Odin
Hi, I am using SPSS 27 (commute license) through my job. I get this warning
when opening SPSS:

“Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It could
not be mapped to a valid backend locale.”

My colleagues also get this warning. I have googled around and I see that
others have reported similar problems in other languages.   How serious is
this warning? Can it simply be ignored? My colleagues simply ignore it.
However, I “hate” not to know whether I need to fix it, or if I can safely
ignore it.

As a side note, I have downloaded data from online examples and checked that
I get the same results etc as these examples. So it does not seem to
influence the statistical analysis (with the exception that I have a comma
instead of a dot). So is it perhaps mainly an issue with string/text
variables? Or is it something I really need to fix before running
statistical analysis? Want to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong
here….any insights on this would be much appreciated.  

I am also running in Unicode so I though language issues should be taken
care of…but perhaps not?

Best regards,
Odin




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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Art Kendall
Please copy and paste several lines in your output immediately before the
warning.



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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Rick Oliver
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Don't know why it's happening, but the issue now is what does the application think your locale is? You could run SHOW LOCALE to find out. If it's something you don't want, use SET LOCALE to change it. Both nn_NO and nb_NO are valid Norwegian locales. 

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 2:07 PM Odin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi, I am using SPSS 27 (commute license) through my job. I get this warning
when opening SPSS:

“Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It could
not be mapped to a valid backend locale.”

My colleagues also get this warning. I have googled around and I see that
others have reported similar problems in other languages.   How serious is
this warning? Can it simply be ignored? My colleagues simply ignore it.
However, I “hate” not to know whether I need to fix it, or if I can safely
ignore it.

As a side note, I have downloaded data from online examples and checked that
I get the same results etc as these examples. So it does not seem to
influence the statistical analysis (with the exception that I have a comma
instead of a dot). So is it perhaps mainly an issue with string/text
variables? Or is it something I really need to fix before running
statistical analysis? Want to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong
here….any insights on this would be much appreciated. 

I am also running in Unicode so I though language issues should be taken
care of…but perhaps not?

Best regards,
Odin




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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Jon Peck
And since both use the western European character set, you should have no character set problems anyway.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 1:59 PM Rick Oliver <[hidden email]> wrote:
Don't know why it's happening, but the issue now is what does the application think your locale is? You could run SHOW LOCALE to find out. If it's something you don't want, use SET LOCALE to change it. Both nn_NO and nb_NO are valid Norwegian locales. 

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 2:07 PM Odin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi, I am using SPSS 27 (commute license) through my job. I get this warning
when opening SPSS:

“Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It could
not be mapped to a valid backend locale.”

My colleagues also get this warning. I have googled around and I see that
others have reported similar problems in other languages.   How serious is
this warning? Can it simply be ignored? My colleagues simply ignore it.
However, I “hate” not to know whether I need to fix it, or if I can safely
ignore it.

As a side note, I have downloaded data from online examples and checked that
I get the same results etc as these examples. So it does not seem to
influence the statistical analysis (with the exception that I have a comma
instead of a dot). So is it perhaps mainly an issue with string/text
variables? Or is it something I really need to fix before running
statistical analysis? Want to make sure that I am not doing anything wrong
here….any insights on this would be much appreciated. 

I am also running in Unicode so I though language issues should be taken
care of…but perhaps not?

Best regards,
Odin




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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Odin
In reply to this post by Art Kendall
Dear Art,

Thanks a lot for replying! This is what I get in the output window when I
open SPSS without data loading (just opening SPSS).

">Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
>The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It
could
>not be mapped to a valid backend locale.
Your license will expire in 2 days."

This is what I get in the output window when opening SPSS with data (simply
double clicking on an SPSS file) that I have downloaded:

"Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
>The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It
could
>not be mapped to a valid backend locale.
Your license will expire in 2 days.
GET
  FILE='C:\Users\03202370\Downloads\restaurant.sav'.
DATASET NAME DataSet1 WINDOW=FRONT"


This is what happens when I double click on the datafile and ordering a
simple frequencies of gender:

>Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: no_NO
>The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It
could
>not be mapped to a valid backend locale.
GET
  FILE='C:\Users\03202370\Downloads\restaurant.sav'.
Your license will expire in 2 days.
DATASET NAME DataSet1 WINDOW=FRONT.
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=gender
  /ORDER=ANALYSIS.
Frequencies
Notes
Output Created 12-APR-2021 23:00:12
Comments
Input Data C:\Users\03202370\Downloads\restaurant.sav
        Active Dataset DataSet1
        Filter <none>
        Weight <none>
        Split File <none>
        N of Rows in Working Data File 20
Missing Value Handling Definition of Missing User-defined missing values are
treated as missing.
        Cases Used Statistics are based on all cases with valid data.
Syntax FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=gender
  /ORDER=ANALYSIS.
Resources Processor Time 00:00:00,00
        Elapsed Time 00:00:00,00



[DataSet1] C:\Users\03202370\Downloads\restaurant.sav
Statistics
gender
N Valid 20
        Missing 0



gender
                Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid 0 female 9 45,0 45,0 45,0
        1 male 11 55,0 55,0 100,0
        Total 20 100,0 100,0


Thanks for helping!

Best regards,

Odin








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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Odin
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Dear Jon,

Does that suggest that I can basically ignore this? Would be in line with
the checking I have done...

Best regards,

Odin



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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Jon Peck
Yes.  The only time the locale might matter would be in reading in non-Unicode data, but since all the Norwegian characters are in the default code page character set, things should be fine even in that case.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 3:14 PM Odin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Dear Jon,

Does that suggest that I can basically ignore this? Would be in line with
the checking I have done...

Best regards,

Odin



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Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Odin
In reply to this post by Rick Oliver
Hi Rick, thanks a lot for your reply. When I do a show locale I get this: 
System Settings Keyword Description Setting
LOCALE     country and character set nb_NO.windows-1252

According to a recent support post I think it should be ok:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locale-subcommand-set-command-has-invalid-parameter

But still do not understand why I get a warning in spss.  What does "Text: no_NO" really mean? Is it because it should be nn_NO or nb_NO?

Any thoughts is highly appreciated!

Best Odin