1:37 a.m.
I've just downloaded and installed gretl, but the graphs don't work. I've
uninstalled and reinstalled but it still doesn't work. When I try to get a
graph, it opens a gnuplot window and gives an error message: "Invalid byte
sequence in conversion input". In fact the message is "sequência de bytes
inválida na entrada de conversão" since I am runnig a Portuguese-Brazilian
version.
Well, I also noticed that gretl uses a directory in "Documents and
Settings/Application Data" for temp files. When I ask for any graph, it
generates the .PNG temp file and gives the error above. When I click the
"ok" button, the png and other temp files are deleted.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Arthur
2:44 a.m.
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
I've just downloaded and installed gretl, but the graphs
don't
work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but it still doesn't
work. When I try to get a graph, it opens a gnuplot window and
gives an error message: "Invalid byte sequence in conversion
input". In fact the message is "sequência de bytes inválida na
entrada de conversão" since I am runnig a Portuguese-Brazilian
version.
Can you tell us what version of Windows you're using, and what
exactly your language setting and code page is? You should be
able to get the language variable information from
from Windows System Properties/Advanced/Environment Variables,
or by typing "set" in a console box.
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm
I've heard of some Spanish-speaking gretl users experiencing this
problem but I'm not able to reproduce it (e.g. on Windows XP
running in Spanish).
Allin Cottrell
7:40 p.m.
2008/3/31, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> I've just downloaded and installed gretl, but the graphs don't
> work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but it still doesn't
> work. When I try to get a graph, it opens a gnuplot window and
> gives an error message: "Invalid byte sequence in conversion
> input". In fact the message is "sequência de bytes inválida na
> entrada de conversão" since I am runnig a Portuguese-Brazilian
> version.
Can you tell us what version of Windows you're using, and what
exactly your language setting and code page is? You should be
able to get the language variable information from
from Windows System Properties/Advanced/Environment Variables,
or by typing "set" in a console box.
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm
I've heard of some Spanish-speaking gretl users experiencing this
problem but I'm not able to reproduce it (e.g. on Windows XP
running in Spanish).
Allin Cottrell
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Well,
Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP 2200+
1,79GHz 480 MB RAM
I typed SET in a command session and got the folowing:
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Dados de aplicativos
CLIENTNAME=Console
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Arquivos de programas\Arquivos comuns
COMPUTERNAME=Computer
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Username
LOGONSERVER=\\Computer
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
Path=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0801
ProgramFiles=C:\Arquivos de programas
PROMPT=$P$G
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\USERNA~1\CONFIG~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\USERNA~1\CONFIG~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=Computer
USERNAME=Username
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Username
windir=C:\WINDOWS
As I don't think anyone will find my language settings from the vars above,
I took two printscreens:
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=regionaloptionsbt1.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancedtabdl9.jpg
And I also have the folowing options marked in my Code Page Conversion
Tables:
10000 (MAC - Roman) - Disabled
10006 (MAC - Greek)
10007 (MAC - Cyrilic)
10010 (MAC - Romania)
10017 (MAC - Ukraine)
10029 (MAC - Latin II)
10079 (MAC - Icelandic)
10081 (MAC - Turkish)
10082 (MAC - Croatia)
1026 (IBM EBCDIC - Turkish (Latin-5))
1250 (ANSI - Central European) - Disabled
1251 (ANSI - Cyrillic) - Disabled
1252 (ANSI - Latin I) - Disabled
1253 (ANSI - Greek) - Disabled
1254 (ANSI - Turkish) - Disabled
1255 (ANSI - Hebrew) - Disabled
1256 (ANSI - Arabic) - Disabled
1257 (ANSI - Baltic) - Disabled
1258 (ANSI/OEM - Vietnamese) - Disabled
1361 (Korean - Johab) - Disabled
20217 (USA - ASCII)
20261 (T.61) - Disabled
20866 (Russian - KOI8)
21866 (Ukrainian - KOI8-U)
28591 (ISO 8859-1 Latin I) - Disabled
28592 (ISO 8859-2 Central Europe)
28594 (ISO 8859-4 Baltic)
28595 (ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic)
28597 (ISO 8859-7 Greek)
28599 (ISO 8859-9 Latin 5)
28605 (ISO 8859-15 Latin 9)
37 (IBM EBCDIC - U.S./Canada)
437 (OEM - United States)
500 (IBM EBCDIC - International)
50220 (ISO 2022 Japanese with no halfwidth Katakana) - Disabled
50221 (ISO 2022 Japanese with halfwidth Katakana) - Disabled
50222 (ISO 2022 Japanese JIS X 0201-1989) - Disabled
50225 (ISO 2022 Korean) - Disabled
50227 (ISO 2022 Simplified Chinese) - Disabled
50229 (ISO 2022 Traditional Chinese) - Disabled
51949 (EUC - Korean) - Disabled
52936 (HZ-GB2312 Simplified Chinese) - Disabled
57002 (ISCII Devanagari) - Disabled
57003 (ISCII Bengali) - Disabled
57004 (ISCII Tamil) - Disabled
57005 (ISCII Telugu) - Disabled
57006 (ISCII Assamese) - Disabled
57007 (ISCII Oriya) - Disabled
57008 (ISCII Kannada) - Disabled
57009 (ISCII Malayalam) - Disabled
57010 (ISCII Gujarati) - Disabled
57011 (ISCII Punjabi) - Disabled
65000 (Unicode UTF-7) - Disabled
65001 (Unicode UTF-8) - Disabled
720 (Arabic - Transparent ASMO) - Disabled
737 (OEM - Greek (formerly 437G)) - Disabled
775 (OEM - Baltic) - Disabled
850 (OEM - Multilingual Latin I) - Disabled
852 (OEM - Latin II) - Disabled
855 (OEM - Cyrillic (primarily Russian)) - Disabled
857 (OEM - Turkish) - Disabled
860 (OEM - Portuguese)
861 (OEM - Icelandic)
862 (OEM - Hebrew) - Disabled
863 (OEM - Canadian-French)
865 (OEM - Nordic)
866 (OEM - Russian) - Disabled
869 (OEM - Modern Greek)
874 (ANSI/OEM - Thai (same as 28605, ISO 8859-15)) - Disabled
875 (IBM EBCDIC - Modern Greek)
932 (ANSI/OEM - Japanese, Shift-JIS) - Disabled
936 (ANSI/OEM - Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore)) - Disabled
949 (ANSI/OEM - Korean (Unified Hangeul Code)) - Disabled
950 (ANSI/OEM - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC)) - Disabled
I hope it helps you to help me...
Arthur
8:14 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP
2200+
1,79GHz 480 MB RAM
I typed SET in a command session and got the folowing...
Thanks very much for doing that, but as you say this doesn't seem
to be the right place to look for language settings.
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=regionaloptionsbt1.jpg
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancedtabdl9.jpg
Thanks; but I don't see anything unusual there.
I'd really like to find out what's happening here. I've built a
new gretl snapshot, at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
which prints out some debugging information for graphs. If you
could download and try this version that would be much
appreciated. To see the debugging info:
* Use the Start/Run Windows menu item
* Browse and select gretlw32.exe (under Arquivos de
programs\gretl?)
* Append " --debug" to the path to gretlw32.exe (that's a space
followed by two dashes, followed by debug, typed without quotes):
"C:\Archivos de programas\gretl\gretlw32.exe" --debug
* Hit OK to run, and you should see gretl accompanied by a console
window, in which the debugging information will be printed.
A good test case is this: open the Ramanathan dataset data3-6;
select both Ct and Yt in the gretl main window; right-click and
select an XY scatter plot (this will definitely produce accented
characters in the graph).
For reference, I'm showing below the output I got when I did
exactly that, running on Windows XP with Brazilian Portuguese
selected. Some of the lines will be broken in the email, and some
of the characters are not represented correctly since the original
output was in UTF-8, which is not supported in the Windows
console, but it gives the idea. In my case the graph displays
correctly.
<standand error output>
setlocale gives 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'
get_gretl_charset gave CP1252
Lido o arquivo de dados C:\Program Files\gretl\data\data3-6.gdt
periodicidade: 1, mßxobs: 36,
intervalo das observat)es: 1959-1994
png term line:
'set term pngcairo font "verdana,8"
set encoding utf8'
title: 'Ct versus Yt (com ajustamento por m+¡nimos quadrados)'
gnuplot_make_graph:
plotcmd='"C:\Program Files\gretl\wgnuplot.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\WFUT602007\Application
Data\gretl\gpttmp.a03792"', err = 0
read_plotspec_from_file: err = 0
get_png_bounds_info(): OK
setting window title
calling gtk_widget_show on plot->shell
pngname: 'C:\Documents and Settings\WFUT602007\Application
Data\gretl\gretltmp.png'
</standard error output>
Allin Cottrell
8:43 p.m.
2008/4/1, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2 on a Mobile AMD Athlon XP 2200+
> 1,79GHz 480 MB RAM
>
> I typed SET in a command session and got the folowing...
Thanks very much for doing that, but as you say this doesn't seem
to be the right place to look for language settings.
> http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=regionaloptionsbt1.jpg
> http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=advancedtabdl9.jpg
Thanks; but I don't see anything unusual there.
I'd really like to find out what's happening here. I've built a
new gretl snapshot, at
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
which prints out some debugging information for graphs. If you
could download and try this version that would be much
appreciated. To see the debugging info:
* Use the Start/Run Windows menu item
* Browse and select gretlw32.exe (under Arquivos de
programs\gretl?)
* Append " --debug" to the path to gretlw32.exe (that's a space
followed by two dashes, followed by debug, typed without quotes):
"C:\Archivos de programas\gretl\gretlw32.exe" --debug
* Hit OK to run, and you should see gretl accompanied by a console
window, in which the debugging information will be printed.
A good test case is this: open the Ramanathan dataset data3-6;
select both Ct and Yt in the gretl main window; right-click and
select an XY scatter plot (this will definitely produce accented
characters in the graph).
For reference, I'm showing below the output I got when I did
exactly that, running on Windows XP with Brazilian Portuguese
selected. Some of the lines will be broken in the email, and some
of the characters are not represented correctly since the original
output was in UTF-8, which is not supported in the Windows
console, but it gives the idea. In my case the graph displays
correctly.
<standand error output>
setlocale gives 'Portuguese_Brazil.1252'
get_gretl_charset gave CP1252
Lido o arquivo de dados C:\Program Files\gretl\data\data3-6.gdt
periodicidade: 1, mßxobs: 36,
intervalo das observat)es: 1959-1994
png term line:
'set term pngcairo font "verdana,8"
set encoding utf8'
title: 'Ct versus Yt (com ajustamento por m+¡nimos quadrados)'
gnuplot_make_graph:
plotcmd='"C:\Program Files\gretl\wgnuplot.exe"
"C:\Documents and Settings\WFUT602007\Application
Data\gretl\gpttmp.a03792"', err = 0
read_plotspec_from_file: err = 0
get_png_bounds_info(): OK
setting window title
calling gtk_widget_show on plot->shell
pngname: 'C:\Documents and Settings\WFUT602007\Application
Data\gretl\gretltmp.png'
</standard error output>
Allin Cottrell
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Allin,
Thanks a lot! I've installed and runned the grtl as you said and got the
following:
http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debugoutputet1.jpg
The error is "error from gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file"
I hope it helps to improve gretl
Greetings,
Arthur
9:26 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
Thanks a lot! I've installed and runned the grtl as you said and
got the
following:
http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debugoutputet1.jpg
The error is "error from gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file"
OK, we have it pinned down! This must be a filename-encoding
issue. I'll put up a new version later tonight or tomorrow.
Allin.
12:35 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> Thanks a lot! I've installed and runned the grtl as you said and got the
> following:
>
> http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debugoutputet1.jpg
>
> The error is "error from gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file"
OK, we have it pinned down! This must be a filename-encoding
issue. I'll put up a new version later tonight or tomorrow.
There's a new snapshot in place which I hope will fix this issue.
But it's quite tricky, so I've put in some new debugging
statements just in case.
Allin
12:50 a.m.
2008/4/1, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot! I've installed and runned the grtl as you said and got
the
> > following:
> >
> > http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debugoutputet1.jpg
> >
> > The error is "error from gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file"
>
> OK, we have it pinned down! This must be a filename-encoding
> issue. I'll put up a new version later tonight or tomorrow.
There's a new snapshot in place which I hope will fix this issue.
But it's quite tricky, so I've put in some new debugging
statements just in case.
Allin
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Allin,
How do I get this update?
1:04 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> There's a new snapshot in place which I hope will fix this
issue.
> But it's quite tricky, so I've put in some new debugging
> statements just in case.
How do I get this update?
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
This is where the latest gretl snapshot is always located. It's
generally updated every few days.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
1:44 a.m.
2008/4/1, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> > There's a new snapshot in place which I hope will fix this issue.
> > But it's quite tricky, so I've put in some new debugging
> > statements just in case.
> How do I get this update?
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
This is where the latest gretl snapshot is always located. It's
generally updated every few days.
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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Allin,
It still doesn't work. It really looks like a problem with the path to the
.png file. The correct path is "Bággio", but there are some weird chars...
http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newerrorxc7.jpg
You can notice that there are differences between the two occurrences of the
word "Bággio".
And I still get the "Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" error...
2:01 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
It still doesn't work. It really looks like a problem with the
path to the .png file. The correct path is "Bággio", but there
are some weird chars...
http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=newerrorxc7.jpg
You can notice that there are differences between the two
occurrences of the word "Bággio".
Yes, since the first one doesn't work, we re-encode and try again.
To no avail. I'll try researching this some more.
Allin.
3:17 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Arthur Gouveia wrote:
> It still doesn't work. It really looks like a problem with the
> path to the .png file. The correct path is "Bággio", but there
> are some weird chars...
Yes, since the first one doesn't work, we re-encode and try again.
To no avail. I'll try researching this some more.
I believe this thing may be fixed now, in today's snapshot:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
Please test!
Allin.
11:05 p.m.
I believe this thing may be fixed now, in today's snapshot:
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/gretl_install.exe
Please test!
Allin.
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Issue solved!!!! Now I can see the graphs!
Thanks a lot, Allin. If this is the standard for gretl development, I'm sure
it will be the biggest satistical software!
Arthur
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