Windows 7 (and most likely vista too) is unicode. There's an option in the control panel for "non unicode programs". The dialog says "select a local to use when displaying text in programs that do not support unicode". I changed it to en-US, repeated the same steps but I could not open back the already created sessions file I sent earlier. I did manage to repeat the exact same steps taken previously to save and open a file when created under the new locale settings. Went back again to es-AR and I also can open the file. So it seems to be an error when saving, not opening, under non english locales.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, [ISO-8859-1] Patricio Cuarón wrote:
>
> > Version: 1.8.5 con windows 7.
> > I get a "xmlParseFile failed" on this session. The session only contains
> > imported data (I imported data, saved and then closed the session).
>
> What locale? What character set does Windows 7 use? Does it use
> the old Windows CP* or some sort of UTF representation?
>
> The name of the imported data file contains non-UTF-8 junk that
> apparently could not be converted properly.

Ah, are you using the 1.8.5 release, or the current Windows
snapshot?

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/win32/

There's a fix in the CVS Changelog for the "xmlParse" problem
that you mention:

Fix bug: a native gdt file made from imported data could
end up containing non-UTF-8 characters (and hence not
be openable)

Allin Cottrell

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