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Re: st: Scandinavian letters in Stata


From   roland andersson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Scandinavian letters in Stata
Date   Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:27:18 +0100

Thank you Eric an Martin

I still need some help. One example of a list looks like this:

Norrköping	for Norrköping
Nässjö	    for Nässjö
Söderköping	 for Söderköping

Should I write

replace var1 = subinstr(var1, "ö", "`=char(246)'", .)
replace var1 = subinstr(var1, "ä", "`=char(
Correct?



2010/2/23 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
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> *************
> ssc d asciiplot
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> by Nick and coauthor makes the issue even clearer...
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> HTH
> Martin
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>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Eric Booth
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 16:45
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Scandinavian letters in Stata
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> ******************
> clear
> ssc install ascii
> **
> inp str10 var1
> "Aasdf"
> "oghjkl"
> "qwerty"
> "zxcvnm"
> "yuiop"
> end
> **
> ascii
> li
> replace var1 = subinstr(var1, "a", "`=char(138)'", .)
> replace var1 = subinstr(var1, "o", "`=char(154)'", .)
> replace var1 = subinstr(var1, "A", "`=char(128)'", .)
> li
> ******************
>
> ~ Eric
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> [email protected]
> Office: +979.845.6754
>
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:34 AM, roland andersson wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to keep the scandinavian letters in Stata? The largest
>> problem is when I make lists of patients names and adresses. Å, ä and
>> ö are replaced with other letters and I do not know how to transform
>> them back to the scandinavian alphabet.
>>
>> Roland Andersson
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