[Gretl-users] Data Handling Problems (Mac OS/X) - Correction

Henrique henrique.coelho at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 16:50:29 EDT 2008


I'll try this later (because I'm not home right now), but as soon as I do
that I'll tell you.

Best,
Henrique

2008/9/19 Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu>

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Henrique wrote:
>
> the first difference in the others). Everything works fine, but when I
>> try to save the changes gretl shows me the message:
>>
>> /Users/henrique/gretl/Base de Dados (Dissertação).gdt~:Illegal byte
>> sequence
>>
>>     But when I change the names of the files (without any
>> Portuguese-Brazilian symbols, like "ç" or "~") it works fine. What's
>> wrong? Does gretl doesn't accept signs?
>>
>
> I'm not certain that the "locale" program is available on OS X, but can you
> try typing "locale" in a terminal window and see what it says.  Here, for
> example,
>
> waverley:~$ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> (etc.)
>
> I suspect gretl is trying to write the filename encoded as UTF-8 and that
> is not being accepted by the operating system.
>
> Allin Cottrell
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