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| From | Teresio Poggio <terlist@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: handling "special characters" with tabout |
| Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:16:12 +0200 |
Dear all, no answers received to my post - may be this is not a common problem - but I've made a few steps forward ... It has sorted out that TABOUT works properly when handling Western European special characters in variable and value labels. I've tested it inspecting the .csv output files with a few different text editors. My apologies to Ian Watson for having doubts on this. My aim was to have .csv files allowing me to open them in MS Excel with a double-click, with the correct characters' encoding already set. In fact Excel (Office 2011 for Mac) - not TABOUT - seems the cause the problem, by not encoding these characters (western european mac) correctly ... I've tried to repeat the procedures on a Windows xp environment (Stata IC 11.2) and the all procedure works nicely. Labels should be encoded within the Windows environment - Using a data file documented in the Mac environment will result in characters' encoding problems. It has been funny to see that Excel for Mac also works well with the .csv tables produced in the Windows environment... Hope this could be of use to colleagues in "special characters" countries. Kind regards Teresio * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/