Run Q on a computer that has been set up to use the same language as is in the data file.Ask your data provider to give you an SPSS file in Unicode mode.You will need to do one of the following: Fixing an SPSS File from Another Language Japanese and Chinese, or English (latin) and Russian (cyrillic). If you have data that cannot fit into a single encoding then the SPSS file must be made using Unicode mode. For example, a Japanese SPSS file in Code Page mode can only be used in Q on a Japanese computer. In Code Page mode your data file can only include characters that are normal in your language, or English. Other characters will appear as ? characters. In Code Page mode (the older default), only characters from your computer's default code page can be used.
Text in SPSS files can be encoded in two modes:
If you load data in Q and see ? characters where there should be text then you have probably loaded an SPSS file from another language that was saved using Code Page mode. However, analysis will be substantially easier and faster if these specifications are used when creating the file.
