Re: Warning 849 in SPSS 27

Posted by Jon Peck on Apr 12, 2021; 8:53pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Warning-849-in-SPSS-27-tp5740435p5740438.html

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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