SAVEASCII: Stata module to provide wrapper for saveold, incorporating translation of unicode characters to extended ASCII encodings

Daniel Bela

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: saveascii acts as a wrapper for Stata' saveold command. When used in Stata 14 or younger, it additionally translates unicode characters in string variables, variable and value labels, characteristics, etc into extended ASCII. Thereby, it is designed to be a seamless replacement to Stata's regular saveold. This means that saveascii is to be used in the same way as saveold itself, and behaves exactly like saveold in Statas older than version 14. This program is incorporating ideas and concepts from Alan Riley of StataCorp, as presented on Statalist.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11.2
Keywords: unicode; UTF-8; Latin1; Windows 1252; Mac Roman; file conversion; encoding; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08-08, Revised 2017-04-04
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install saveascii". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/g/gnugpl.sthlp help file (text/plain)

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