running syntax file from ui vs running syntax file from command prompt

[Kees Varekamp]

Hi there,

I am trying to run a utf-8 syntax script in PSPP 0.8.2 on win7 64bit, but I think there is a problem when I run the a syntax file from the command line:
 --syntax-encoding as a start param does not seem to work:

I have tried:
"C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o log.txt --syntax-encoding=UTF-8
"C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o log.txt --syntax-encoding=utf-8
"C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o log.txt --syntax-encoding=UTF8
"C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" file.sps -b -o log.txt --syntax-encoding="UTF-8"
"C:\Program Files\PSPP\bin\pspp.exe" --syntax-encoding="UTF-8" file.sps -b -o log.txt

All with no success - my Thai characters get garbled. However, when I load the script through the gui (and select UTF-8 from the dialog) it works perfectly. So I think this command line param just doesn't work.

Thanks,

Kees