Yes, you can select the file and press "open" and then you get that message.
[image: Inline image 1]
PG
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On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Periklis Gogas wrote:
Via the GUI.
> Its is a common problem here as being in Greece most of my students have
> some Greek characters in the path where they try to access data or Gretl
> files. You get this:
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
(Error from gtk: "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input")
Thanks, Periklis. So -- just to be sure I've got the context right -- this
occurs when using, say, the
/File/Open data/User file
menu item? And if so, how far do you get? Are you able to select the
target file, but then on clicking "OK" or whatever you get that error
message?
Allin
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