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[Feature Request] Support for import locale-specific encoding strings in SPSS sav #263

@shun2wang

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@shun2wang

Hi,
Thank you for providing such a great tool.

Usually ReadStat can successfully import UTF-encoded datasets, but when reading locale encoded .sav files, it will prompt "Unable to convert string to the requested encoding (invalid byte sequence)"

I provide two sample .sav datasets(remove its .zip suffix) here for testing:

In ReadStat and Haven, the first dataset could not be read with the above error,But GNU PSPP can successfully open it. I guess that when encountering a localized encoded file, try to convert it to UTF through some methods and then read it, but I haven't seen such a practice yet(maybe the practice of PSPP is a success ).
Could you consider implementing it.

Thank you!

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