[R] Another problem with encoding

[Peter Dalgaard]

Matthias Wendel wrote:
> Hi
>     I've imported an spss-file using read.spss. One variable has value like 'Ärzte'. I thought this is UTF-8 encoded, but it is not
> (as the results of iconv and utf8ToInt suggest). Is there any way to find out how these spss-values are encoded?
>   
You are assuming a bit much of your readers.

What exactly are you doing? Is it a value, a value label, or perhaps a 
variable name. How do the results of read.spss look on the R side? How 
did you apply iconv and utf8ToInt? What is your locale?

I mean, we could try and guess all those details, but you are the one 
with the hard info, and the motivation...

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