Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com> writes:
> Em Qua, 2012-06-06 às 17:11 -0400, Ben Pfaff escreveu:
>> Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > The Portuguese language has a lot of diacritical marks and it
>> > is almost impossible to deal with data from, say, a list of
>> > cities from any Brazilian geographic area without stumbling on
>> > an "á" or a "ç". All official (from governmental agencies) data
>> > uses those signs an it is a very good thing they do so!
>> >
>> > The problem is that PSPP software can't import those correctly
>> > replacing any char with diacritical marks on it with "?"
>> > (question marks). PSPP behaves differently if the source data
>> > is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1: with the latter, PSPP import preview
>> > panel is unable to show the correct chars from the very
>> > beginning (it shows a rectangle with the diagonal lines just
>> > like an X inside a box); with the former, the import preview
>> > panel shows the correct chars!! but when I click to actually
>> > perform the import it replaces the correct chars with "?".
>>
>> Gunther, can you give a small example of input, along with
>> step-by-step instructions, that illustrate the problem?
>>
>
> I will attach the cvs file I have downloaded from (www.igbe.gov.br) and
> changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF8 using iconv
>
> $ iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 Mandirituba_censoagro2006.cvs > /
> Mandirituba_censoagro2006UTF8.cvs
>
> I convert this file because the original one didn't import the way I
> expected.
I've now posted some patches to fix the problem to pspp-dev.
They should be available in the list archives in a few minutes,
at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-dev/2012-06/index.html
When they're reviewed, I'll arrange for the fixed version to be
uploaded to Debian.
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