syntax error when dealing with Norwegian letters
Jo Blois
A problem I can't resolve.
On a Macbook running on SPSS 17.0 on Leopard, this problem does not
occur.
But it does on an iMac running SPSS 18.0 on Snow Leopard.
Unable to work with a Norwegian database because every time a
Norwegian character is encountered, SPSS deals as if the word
terminates there.
For example:
RENAME VARIABLES (fødselsår=ybirth).
works fine on the laptop with SPSS 17.0 but I get :
">Error # 5241 in column 19. Text: f
>Undefined variable name. Check spelling, verify the existence of this
>variable. Has it been dropped or renamed in this command?
>Execution of this command stops.
>Error # 5241 in column 1. Text: EXECUTE
>Undefined variable name. Check spelling, verify the existence of this
>variable. Has it been dropped or renamed in this command?
>Error # 5219 in column 1024. Text: (End of Command)
>Invalid symbol in the RENAME new variable list. PASW Statistics encountered
>something other than a variable name or the TO keyword."
With the iMac running SPSS 18.0
Does anyone knows how to deal with this issue?
Thank you
Jon
JKPeck
It sounds to me like you have a problem with the character set
setting. Check your locale and Unicode settings
(SHOW LOCALE UNICODE).
You can use SET LOCALE to change the locale appropriately. There
could be a conflict between the database character encoding and the
setting for SPSS. The simplest thing to try, though, is
SET UNICODE ON (which you can also do in Edit>Options). You can't
have any open datasets when you issue this command.
HTH,
Jon Peck
Jo Blois
It certainly has to do with the character set but I had tried what you
suggest but it won't work.
Whether LOCALE or UNICODE is the default, the problem persists.
So I am stuck with having to do my analyses on the laptop.
I wonder if it has something to do with the SPSS version?
Jon