Re: st: Japanese labels in the data file

[Ekaterina Hertog <ekaterina.hertog@sociology.ox.ac.uk>]

Dear Sergiy,
Thank you very much for the clarification. I knew that Stata did not 
support Asian scripts, but the other day I received a dataset from a 
Japanese collaborator which was completely unreadable and I excitedly 
lept to a conclusion that Stata now reads Japanese fonts and I just do 
not have the necessary support on my computer.
Your clarification made me I now that those must have been just very 
interestingly corrupted latin letters. I will try to figure out what the 
problem is.
Thank you,
Ekaterina

Radyakin wrote:
> Dear Ekaterina,
>
> let me quote the explanation from the CircleSystems, manufacturer of
> Stat\Transfer. from their FAQ on Unicode and character encoding as
> applied to this program and datasets it works with:
> http://www.stattransfer.com/faq/encoding.html
>
> // ---------- BEGIN QUOTE
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Q. What about Stata?
>
> A.Unfortunately Stata does not support Unicode and does not support
> other multi-byte character sets, such as those necessary for Far
> Eastern Languages. If you are working with a data set in which all of
> the strings are in a language that can be represented by single byte
> characters (all European languages) just choose the appropriate output
> encoding. However, if your dataset contains strings in Far Eastern
> langages or multiple languages that use different character sets, you
> will simply not be able to properly represent all of the strings and
> will need to live with underscores in your data.
>
> You might also want to let the Stata people know that Unicode support
> is important to you
> // ---------- END QUOTE
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Hope this helps.
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Ekaterina Hertog
> <ekaterina.hertog@sociology.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
> > Dear all,
> > I have got a data file from a collaborator where all the data labels are in
> > Jpaanese and my version of Stata 11 does not recognise them. I have googles
> > around, but i cannot find a way to make Stata 11 display Japanese fonts.
> > Does anyone know how to do this?
> > I will be most grateful for any advice.
> > Sincerely yours,
> > Ekaterina
> >
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Ekaterina Hertog (née Korobtseva)
Career Development Fellow
Department of Sociology and Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
University of Oxford

27 Winchester Road
Oxford
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