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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:
165-locale-specific.sav dataset encoded by Chinese locale-specific encoding
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.