I would use -filefilter- or a file editor
to change the unacceptable character to something
acceptable for reading in and then reverse the
process in Stata. -hexdump- will give you an idea
of characters not present. @ is
a character often not present, unless there
are email addresses, but easily used.
Nick
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Sergiy Radyakin
> Try the following:
>
> di "This is `=char(255)' and this is y."
Eva Poen
> > while recoding a questionnaire that was originally conducted in
> > German, Arabic, and Russian, I hit the problem mentioned in this
> > thread:
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-02/msg00316.html
> >
> > I am using Stata 9. I managed to read the data in all right
> (they are
> > in various tab separated files), but I cannot manipulate a string
> > variable containing the character �. Since "�" is part of
> some of the
> > answers to the questionnaire, and since I need to recode these, I
> > somehow have to get around it.
> >
> > While a do-file will stop upon seeing "�", the Stata 9 command line
> > will simply ignore it. Typing -di "This is � and this is
> y."- results
> > in
> >
> > . di "This is and this is y."
> > This is and this is y.
> >
> > I.e. the character � is simply swallowed.
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