Otto Fajardo

I was looking at the ReadStat source code and now I think you were right from the beginning, there is apparently no encoding conversion enabled for por files, while it...

Oh actually, maybe it is possible to transcode the labels in python, now that you know they are currently utf8 and you need to translate them to some cyrillic encoding.

probably you are right again =(

Beyond the encoding issue, I think the labels are not read correctly by ReadStat, for all labels I see always the same two bytes, repeated over and over, which does...

I tried with Readstat itself with the same results. Debugging it with gdb, I can see that [here](https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/blob/dev/src/spss/readstat_por_read.c:518) I can see a string (tried to check if they did make...

By debugging I got to the point where it is reading the bytes from the file, then I see some code where these bytes are forced to be transformed to...

Good question, I am not sure myself, so up to you. In one hand it looks like a fair request, or at least one that should be documented as an...

in the new version 1.2.7 I have removed the encoding parameter from the read_por function and explained in the documentation of the function that only UTF-8 por files are supported....

Thanks for the reproducible issue. Regarding missing_ranges, please use the argument user_missing=True to get them. Please take the time to read the Readme in the [section about missing values](https://github.com/Roche/pyreadstat#spss) where...

For alignment it seems that the underlying C library [Readstat](https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/tree/dev) is not reading them correctly. The same library does not currently define any function to extract role, so it cannot...