> Note that a question mark in output indicates
> a character Stata cannot print with the current
> font. Sometimes the problem can be solved by
> selecting a better font.
Indeed, it can. Selecting a built in windows font (e.g. Courier) for Stata
Results Windows shows the t�st and t�st variable in the expected way.
So what I observed so far is no Stata problem but rather a problem with
built in Stata fonts.
Thank you, Nick.
Christian.
> However, a question mark in input like
> varlists is a wildcard character and must
> not be assumed to correspond to a specific
> unknown character.
>
> Thus
>
> . describe t?st
>
> should pick up _all_ variable names with that
> form. This is usually regarded as a feature.
Nick
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Christian Holz
>
> > > - variable names and labels containing a German "umlaut" (�,
> > > �, �, �, �,
> > > �, �) are not possible in Stata (really?)
> >
> > Others can comment better than I can.
>
> So can I.
>
> Indeed, Stata is unable to use Umlauts (and also French
> letters with accents
> and Spanish ones with tildes, hats and stuff on it) correctly
> - it prints
> question marks instead. So if you want to use those outputs or graphs
> directly you should convert the umlauts in the specified way.
>
> However, Stata does not produce errors if you use umlauts in
> comments or
> even variable or value labels or variable names, so it's
> completely legal to
> use them.
> But I would strongly recommend not using umlauts in variable
> names. (I did
> not even know that it's okay to do until I tried it now) Just
> try my example
> to get the point:
>
> generate t�st=1
> generate t�st=3
> describe t?st
>
> doing so, two variables appear in the output, both with
> question marks where
> originally have been the umlauts. So it's quite hard to
> distinguish between
> them. (Anyway you get the right content by typing e.g. tab
> t�st or tab t�st)
>
> Again the output topic: If you export the output (text output
> - I did not
> ever try it with graphs) to any other program (such as MS
> Word or Excel -
> hope I do not get off topic mentioning that :-), the umlauts
> appear in the
> right way.
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