[Gretl-users] Gretl and Greek Windows
Hello Tank and greetings from a fellow Greek!
Allin and all, recently (about two weeks ago) I have had the following
experience with one of my graduate students: I helped him install the
latest Windows gretl release on his brand new Toshiba laptop, only to
find out that no Excel files could be opened on his machine! We tried
different things, including moving Excel files to pretty clean directory
names (e.g. C:\here) to no avail. I was totally baffled and could not
explain what caused this behavior; my student eventually gave up on gretl.
THEN I realized his laptop came preinstalled with a *GREEK* edition of
Windows XP (SP2). Is yours too Tank (i.e. do menus and dialog boxes etc
all appear in GREEK)? If YES you may want to try installing gretl and
REPEATING the exact procedure on a machine equipped with plain vanilla
*English *Windows. My bet is that things will run smoothly. If so, could
you kindly report back to the group so Allin may look into it?
If my suspicion is confirmed, I will feel justified in advising friends,
colleagues and students to steer clear of Greek installations of Windows.
BTW a very happy new year to Allin and all esteemed members of this group.
Tank, feel free to contact me privately should I be able to be of any
assistance.
John "Yannis" Paravantis
Lecturer, Department of Digital Systems
University of Piraeus
+30 210 4142771 office
+30 210 697 3048824 cell.
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:16:02 +0200
From: "Athanasios Kalogeresis" <kaloger(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Gretl-users] locale bug?
To: gretl-users(a)ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
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Hi,
I just downloaded and installed the latest (12/29/2006) windows build. I ran
a VECM and saved it as an icon to the session, which I then saved. I then
closed gretl and double clicked on the session icon (both my dataset and the
sessions are stored on my usb flash) to get the following warning
g_locale_to_utf8 failed for charset 'CP1253'
after continiously clicking on OK I finally got a script window that was
illigible. When I closed it gretl was still on, however, my session had not
been loaded.
Trying to open my session through the gretl gui is more successful, since I
am able to see the session window and the datafile. However, double clicking
on the vecm icon crashes gretl.
Although I have repeated the above a number of times, I have not tried to
replicate it with some other dataset, but thought it would be useful to
report.
P.S.
CP1253 is windows Greek.
Regards,
Tank