Special character in Variable labels (German "ä", "ö", "ü", ...)

[Reto Klammer]

I'am importing a ".dta dataset created by another Software (maybe SAS) and everything workes fine, apart that I observe odd characters in place of "ä", "ö", "ü", .. . I know it has something to do with unicode, but I cannot find out, how to convert that labels globally.

[daniel klein]

In general, see

help unicode translate

More specific answers probably require a more detailed description of the problem; ideally, an example created by dataex.

Best
Daniel

[Reto Klammer]

Thank you for your reply. Finally, the solution was, that the person who exported the data out of sas(?) chose a different setting (unicode).