Re: Outputting .sav files

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:35:15AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      
>      We've had a couple of questions just like this in the last few
>      weeks.  I wonder whether the user documentation needs some
>      information on locales?
>
> And also we should consider implementing the SET LOCALE command in
> PSPP.  The complication arises when we try to keep it compatible with
> SPSS. Ideally it should accept both windows "Codepage" numbers  and
> strings such as "ISO-8859-1".  

Yes.

And, of course, we should support the encoding for .sav files,
too.

> I seem to remember that we had a discussion about converting codepage
> numbers to posix encodings a few months ago, but I couldn't find it by
> searching the mailing list archives.

I think that Gnulib or gettext might include a mapping table.
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