https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400322#M2710 <P>For basic information about UTF, consult the relevant page on wikipedia.</P> <P>For SAS and UTF, start here:&nbsp;<A href="http://www.sascommunity.org/planet/blog/category/encoding-system-option/" target="_blank">http://www.sascommunity.org/planet/blog/category/encoding-system-option/</A></P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:22:08 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2017-10-02T16:22:08Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400311#M2707 <P>I am trying to import an xlsx document with a cell containing a string that includes "greater than or equal to"&nbsp;("<SPAN> ≥</SPAN>")&nbsp;sign. I am getting the following note<EM> "WARNING: Some character data was lost during transcoding in column</EM></P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:37:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400311#M2707 mei1006 2017-10-02T15:37:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400313#M2708 <P>This is most probably caused by your SAS session not being configured for UTF encoding.</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:40:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400313#M2708 Kurt_Bremser 2017-10-02T15:40:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400315#M2709 <P>what is UTF? how do I know it is configured for UTF encoding? do I need to add some options?</P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:44:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400315#M2709 mei1006 2017-10-02T15:44:15Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400322#M2710 <P>For basic information about UTF, consult the relevant page on wikipedia.</P> <P>For SAS and UTF, start here:&nbsp;<A href="http://www.sascommunity.org/planet/blog/category/encoding-system-option/" target="_blank">http://www.sascommunity.org/planet/blog/category/encoding-system-option/</A></P> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:22:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/All-Things-Community/warning-using-libname-to-convert-excel-sheet-to-SAS-dataset/m-p/400322#M2710 Kurt_Bremser 2017-10-02T16:22:08Z