[Tutor] Question about writing to Excel with slavic characters

[Steven D'Aprano]

Marko Limbek wrote:
> Thank you!
> 
> That was easy. Now I have another problem.
> I use RPy and read the spss database with method read.spss inside a
> nested R code in Python, that looks like that:
> 
> 
> import rpy
> 
> r("""
> library(foreign)
> baza <- read.spss(""" + analysis[0] + """)
> print(baza$demo_izob0)
> """)
> 
> Now when my text data labels in spss have slavic characters, they are
> not recognised and output is something like that:
> 
> stiriletna srednja �ola
> nedokon�ana osnovna �ola
> 
> 
> What should I do here?

Since the SPSS labels are being read by R, not Python, my guess is that this 
is likely a problem with R, not Python.

You might find the rpy mailing list more helpful for solving rpy problems.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list

Good luck!



-- 
Steven