+@pspp{} tries to automatically detect the encoding of string data in
+the file. Sometimes, however, this does not work well, especially for
+files written by old versions of SPSS or @pspp{}. Specify the
+@subcmd{ENCODING} subcommand with an @acronym{IANA} character set name
+as its string argument to override the default. The @subcmd{ENCODING}
+subcommand is a @pspp{} extension.
+