[Eeglablist] Import problem with non-English filename

[Alois Schloegl]

Biosig supports the Brainvision for several years,
You can find a complete list of supported data formats here:
http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/biosig/TESTED

Usually, biosig can deal well also with non-ascii characters; actually,
in most cases, biosig works also fine with non ASCII filenames.

Only in some rare case, e.g. wennn the *.vhdr, *.vmrk are stored in some 
locale, non-utf8 text format, and the file system supports only utf8 or 
vice versa, problems can occur. These issues are difficult to reproduce, 
and I suspect that in those cases, the issue is not with biosig but with 
some unusual configuration of the system (perhaps, different language 
settings for the operating systen, local user, and application software).

In case of issue of Dagfinn, we found a solution to his problem.

    Alois




On 09/14/11 11:09, Arnaud Delorme wrote:
> Dear Dagfinn,
>
> have you tried the BVA-IO plugin. To my knowledge BIOSIG does not allow to import Brainvision format.
> Best wishes,
>
> Arno
>
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Dagfinn Matre wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am experiencing a problem when importing a dataset (BrainVision format) which filename includes the non English character ‘å’ (it’s the letter ‘a’ with a small circle above and used in the Scandinavian languages). This is the error message in Matlab after selecting File ->  Import data ->   From other formats using the BIOSIG toolbox:
>>
>> ERROR SOPEN BV: could not open file …\Fp6_dag1_espen09_14.01.09pånytt.dat
>> Reading data in BrainVision format...
>> ??? Reference to non-existent field 'POS'.
>>
>> Error in ==>  sread at 53
>>          StartPos = HDR.FILE.POS/HDR.SampleRate;
>>
>> Error in ==>  pop_biosig at 136
>>      DAT=sread(dat, Inf);% this isn't transposed in original!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Error in ==>  prefaster40 at 40
>> EEG = pop_biosig(strcat(datapath, vhdrname),...
>>>>
>>
>> Renaming or deleting the letter does not help.
>>
>> I hope someone has a solution to this one J
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dagfinn Matre
>>
>>
>> Dagfinn Matre, forsker/research scientist, PhD
>> Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt/National institute of occupational health
>> P.O. Box 8149 Dep (Gydas vei 8)
>> N-0033 Oslo, Norway
>> T: +47 2319 5215, M: +47 4723 6047, F: +47 2319 5204
>>
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