[Gretl-devel] Some small bugs

[Allin Cottrell]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza wrote:

> (gretl from current cvs in kubuntu Linux with spanish language)
> 
> 1-In a gretl console, writing "help command" (for example "help ols") I obtain 
> an error box with the text "g_locale_to_utf8 failed for charset 'UTF-8'", I 
> click on "close" and gretl exits. If I execute gretl from a console, in this 
> situation an error is reported: 
> 
> console text did not validate as utf8
> Segmentation fault

Thanks for the report.  I'll investigate these things tonight on 
my home Ubuntu machine.

> 
> 2- I cannot run gretl in english, "gretl --english" is not working for me. May 
> be a problem with my kubuntu installation?
> 
> 3- I tried to build a dummy using the command in the "gretl command reference" 
> page  16: 
> (for example with data9-9)
> 
> genr d = (obs>1982:1)
> 
> but I obtained an error:
> 
> ? genr dd=(obs>1982:1)
> > genr dd=(obs>1982:1
> Se esperaba ')' pero se encontró ':'
> 
> (gretl was waiting for a ')' but found ':') 

I need to update the manual on that.  If the reference observation 
is given by date it has to be quoted:

genr dd=(obs>"1982:1")

Allin.