vietnamese characters

[Rodrigo Briceño]

Dear SPSS listers. I just received some data files from Vietnam that comes with some vietnamese characters inside.

I have windows XP and SPSS 17. In SPSS17 I went to edit-options-general and checked unicode (universal character set) but the characters are still messy (my SPSS is based on English language).

My question is: do I have to change something at regional options of windows to be able to read the text-characters properly?

Example of what I'm seeing:
tr¹m ytÕ x· PTT A                                       
Tr¹m ytÕ X· VP§                                        
tr¹m y tÕ long ®iÒn                                    
y tÕ x· h­ng thµnh                                     
y tÕ x· vÜnh h­ng                                      

Thanks for your inputs!

[Peck, Jon]

It looks like you have a sav file that does not have an encoding recorded in it.  With v15 or later, the encoding is recorded.

 

So try changing your SPSS locale to Vietnamese and then opening the data file.  Stay in Unicode mode, though.

 

HTH,

Jon Peck

 

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] vietnamese characters

 

Dear SPSS listers. I just received some data files from Vietnam that comes with some vietnamese characters inside.

I have windows XP and SPSS 17. In SPSS17 I went to edit-options-general and checked unicode (universal character set) but the characters are still messy (my SPSS is based on English language).

My question is: do I have to change something at regional options of windows to be able to read the text-characters properly?

Example of what I'm seeing:
tr¹m ytÕ x· PTT A                                       
Tr¹m ytÕ X· VP§                                        
tr¹m y tÕ long ®iÒn                                    
y tÕ x· h­ng thµnh                                     
y tÕ x· vÜnh h­ng                                      

Thanks for your inputs!

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