Re: Error message when opening any SPSS file

Posted by Jon K Peck on Apr 24, 2012; 5:55pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Error-message-when-opening-any-SPSS-file-tp5662528p5662884.html

Some must have changed in your system settings.  The message is saying that your SPSS LOCALE, which determines things like what symbol is used for a decimal point, is not one that Statistics knows about.  By default, SPSS uses the locale set in your operating system.  mi_NZ means Maori, New Zealand

You can fix this by setting the locale explicitly in SPSS.  For example,
SET LOCALE="english".  That setting will be remembered for future sessions.

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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From:        Ron Fischer <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email]
Date:        04/24/2012 10:09 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Error message when opening any SPSS file
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Dear all,
I urgently need to run some analyses for a presentation and despite working
with SPSS all morning, I now get this error message:
>Warning # 849 in column 23.  Text: mi_NZ
>The LOCALE subcommand of the SET command has an invalid parameter.  It
could
>not be mapped to a valid backend locale.

I had thought that there may be some strange font (some of the respondents
used non-english font), so changed the fonts, but it did not solve the
issue. I now get this message with any SPSS file that I try and open (even
files that worked fine this morning). I tried restarting my computer - no
difference.  Any suggestions of how I can fix this bug? I am traveling
overseas, so I don't have installation CD's or anything like that with me.
What I need to do is merge two SPSS data files (which I have to sort first)
and then run some simple dependent t-tests/repeated ANOVAs. The error
message does not allow me to sort the file anymore or save the recoded file
to a different format.

Many thanks in advance

Ron

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