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Linux Solaris Maintenance Releases Ordering Overview Licensing and Prices Order Online Phone, Fax & Mail Support Technical Support Ask for Help Activation Manual FAQ Register Online Contact Frequently Asked Questions: Character Encoding Q.What are “Encoding Errors”? A.Stat/Transfer stores strings internally in Unicode, which is capable of storing all of characters in all languages, plus many, many other symbols. Most older character sets are of much more limited scope. For instance, the most common encoding, ASCII, is only capable of storing a handful of symbols, letters and numbers, since it has only 127 locations for characters and control codes. Other single-byte character sets double the amount of storage and allow accented characters and other useful symbols. There are a number of such single-byte character sets, for instance one is suitable for the Cyrillic alphabet and another for modern Greek. When Stat/Transfer reads data, it converts it to Unicode either based on the settings for character sets in the encoding options, or information written in the input file. If you file does not have information on the encoding, and is in a character set that is not the default encoding used on your computer, you must tell Stat/Transfer which encoding to use. For instance, if a Greek colleague sends you a Stata dataset, you may need to select a Greek character set in order to properly read it and translate it to a Unicode based system such as Excel. If the dataset contains non-ASCII strings and you do not set the encoding properly, you will get nonsense on output. Because all single byte characters can be mapped to Unicode, there are seldom errors on input. However, you might encounter them if you are reading multi-byte characters such as those for Japanese. The most common problems occur on output, when sometimes a character that was read on input has no mapping to the output character set. For instance, if you read your Greek data set and attempted to write it to SAS, using your Western European machine default, there would be many encoding errors because Greek characters in Unicode cannot be mapped to a character set such as latin1. Some problems are more surprising because it looks as if you are dealing with ASCII, but your file has some characters that cannot be represented in the output.
Linux Solaris Maintenance Releases Ordering Overview Licensing and Prices Order Online Phone, Fax & Mail Support Technical Support Ask for Help Activation Manual FAQ Register Online Contact Formats Stat/Transfer Version 13 supports the following file formats. 1-2-3 Access (Windows only) ASCII - Delimited ASCII- Fixed Format dBASE and compatible formats Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Schemas Epi Info EViews Excel FoxPro Gauss Genstat gretl HTML Tables (write only) JMP LIMDEP Matlab Mineset Minitab Mplus (Write Only) NLOGIT ODBC OpenDocument Spreadsheets OSIRIS (read-only) Paradox Quattro Pro R RATS SAS Data Files SAS Value Labels SAS CPORT (read-only) SAS Transport Files S-PLUS SPSS Data Files SPSS Portable Stata Statistica SYSTAT Triple-S 1-2-3 Files Stat/Transfer will http://www.stattransfer.com/faq/encoding.html read files from any version of 1-2-3. It writes Version One files, which can be read by any version of 1-2-3, and which were a universal format for PC software data interchange. Multiple page worksheets are supported on input. Return to top Access (Windows only) Stat/Transfer will read and write Microsoft Access databases through the most current versions. Although the data are transferred through the Microsoft Access ODBC driver, http://www.stattransfer.com/stattransfer/formats.html Access files are treated like a normal Stat/Transfer file type. You can thus choose the file from the normal Open or Close dialog boxes, and you need not be concerned with the process of configuring an ODBC data source for each file. Stat/Transfer can either read single tables or multiple tables that are joined in an Access “view”. On output, new data may be appended to an existing table, tables can be created in a new file, new tables can be created in an existing file, or existing tables can be overwritten with a new table. Return to top ASCII - Delimited Stat/Transfer will read and write delimited data files. When reading delimited files, you can specify that Stat/Transfer automatically determine if the first row contains variable names, or you can manually control how the first row of the data set will be treated. You can also explicitly specify the delimiter character or you can allow the program to sense it automatically. Numerous options are available for controlling how dates are read, and how text fields are quoted. There are numerous options for controlling the character sets in which data are read or written. Return to top ASCII / Text - Fixed Format Stat/Transfer will read an
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