Re: [bug #15820] Can not read sav file

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> It wouldn't be so bad if the encoding was contained withing
> the file, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

SPSS has some information on its website that basically says
everything is based on the current locale.  If you go to the
spss.com support page (and log in as guest/guest), read through
their support resolutions 19634, 41558, and 26185.  Especially
the first of those.

We should implement SET LOCALE and SHOW LOCALE, which I never
noticed in the manuals before.

I don't know how (or *if*) Windows locale names map to Unix ones.
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