Re: [Gretl-users] Greek Language

On Fri, 18 May 2018, Periklis Gogas wrote: Ok, exam grades turned in so here we go. I've replicated your set-up on Windows 10, running in English but trying to access a data file inside a Desktop subdirectory named "test" in Greek letters (that is, tau-epsilon-sigma-tau). There are at least three ways to open a data file or script file that's suitably associated with gretl: 1) In the native file manager, double-click on the file: this should send a directive to the operating system to launch gretl with the given filename as a command-line argument. 2) Start gretl, then locate and select the file via the native file manager, and drag the file onto the main gretl window. 3) Start gretl then use its menus (e.g. /File/Open data/User file...) to launch the GTK File dialog, select the desired file, then click the "Open" button (or double-click). (Once a file has been successfully opened there's a fourth way; that is. re-select the file under the menu of recently-opened files.) So here's what I've found: methods 2 and 3 work fine to open a file within a Greek-named directory, but method 1 fails as you showed, with the puzzling error message in which the filename is shown with the Greek-letter sequence tau-epsilon-sigma-tau replaced by "test" (in Roman letters). So it seems that when method 1 is used "somebody" is mistakenly transliterating the folder name before it gets to gretl. It could be Windows or it could be GTK (the cross-platform GUI tollkit that gretl uses). I've lodged a query with the GTK guys to try to determine if GTK might be messing with the filename before it reaches gretl. Allin