Dear all,
while recoding a questionnaire that was originally conducted in
German, Arabic, and Russian, I hit the problem mentioned in this
thread:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-02/msg00316.html
I am using Stata 9. I managed to read the data in all right (they are
in various tab separated files), but I cannot manipulate a string
variable containing the character �. Since "�" is part of some of the
answers to the questionnaire, and since I need to recode these, I
somehow have to get around it.
While a do-file will stop upon seeing "�", the Stata 9 command line
will simply ignore it. Typing -di "This is � and this is y."- results
in
. di "This is and this is y."
This is and this is y.
I.e. the character � is simply swallowed.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Eva Poen
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