Troubleshooting -unicode translate- error

[Carole J. Wilson]

I have a dataset that uses extended ascii to render characters in Spanish, Portuguese and Creole (in variable labels, value labels, and notes). I attempt to convert the file to unicode characters and receive an error. I have not worked extensively with the unicode commands and don't know how to identify issues with the dataset. Any help would be appreciated:

. unicode encoding set Latin1
  (default encoding now Latin1)

. unicode translate myfile.dta
  (using Latin1 encoding)

  File summary (before starting):
        1  file(s) specified
        1  file(s) to be examined ...

  File myfile.dta (Stata dataset)
      all variable names okay, ASCII
      all data labels translated
     1281 variable labels okay, ASCII
        0 variable labels okay, already UTF-8
      605 variable labels translated
      all value-label names okay, ASCII
examine_dta_vallabs_content():  3301  subscript invalid
      examine_dta_file():     -  function returned error
          examine_file():     -  function returned error
      do_examine_files():     -  function returned error
            unicode_do():     -  function returned error
     unicode_translate():     -  function returned error
                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error

[Hua Peng (StataCorp)]

The error seems from the incorrect value label specification. Is this dataset created in Stata or by some other third party tools? Please contact Stata tech support at [email protected] and send us the dateset if you can so we can determine the issue and get it fixed.