[R] read.spss and umlaut

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Thomas Kuster wrote:
>
> If I change the translatable characters (overwrite the 0 between :#@'=" and
> ~000 with ÄÖÜäöü). I can read in the file an every ÄÖÜäöü ist a withspace:

Ok, that's the problem then.  The file format says that the umlauts are 
unreadable and R is believing the file format.

I will look at adding an option to specify an encoding and ignore the 
translation table, but not very urgently.

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle