Thank you, Nick and Sergiy. In the long term I will implement Nick's
suggestion as it helps prevent other problems associated with these
characters which may arise. For now, Sergiy's workaround does the job
just fine. Here is an example line from my code:
replace OthersEgo = "1" if OthersEgo == "�������`=char(255)' ���� ���������"
Thanks a lot and kind regards,
Eva
2007/8/20, Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> I would use -filefilter- or a file editor
> to change the unacceptable character to something
> acceptable for reading in and then reverse the
> process in Stata. -hexdump- will give you an idea
> of characters not present. @ is
> a character often not present, unless there
> are email addresses, but easily used.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
> > Try the following:
> >
> > di "This is `=char(255)' and this is y."
>
> Eva Poen
>
> > > 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.
>
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