Re: [Gretl-users] importing timeseries from csv into gretl

I see it! Thanks For anyone else who hits this the extra three characters did not show up in windows notepad or notepad++ . I used UltraEdit to see (and delete) them. And then everything works fine! -----Original Message----- From: gretl-users-bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu [mailto:gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu] On Behalf Of Allin Cottrell Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 3:24 PM To: Gretl list Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] importing timeseries from csv into gretl On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Charles Vereker wrote: Thanks! There are indeed three unprintable (in ASCII) bytes before "date" in your file (0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf), the first of which is translating to 'i' in the gretl CSV reader (since in ISO 8859-1 the byte 0xef represents "i-dierisis"). You can see this if you open the file in a hex editor. Taken together these three bytes actually constitute the so-called byte order mark or BOM (permitted but not recommended in UTF-8 files by the Unicode standard, and apparently sprinkled around by Microsoft tools). It has no business at the start of a plain text file, but I guess we could teach gretl just to ignore it. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users