https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717273#M27491 <P>Hello!</P><P>I have exported SAS data tables to Stata successfully. Unfortunately the value labels in SAS include special characters (such as "é" or "à"), which are not exported well in Stata. Is there a command to preserve these special characters in Stata?&nbsp;</P><P>Many thanks</P> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 09:44:01 GMT mjm6na 2021-02-06T09:44:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717273#M27491 <P>Hello!</P><P>I have exported SAS data tables to Stata successfully. Unfortunately the value labels in SAS include special characters (such as "é" or "à"), which are not exported well in Stata. Is there a command to preserve these special characters in Stata?&nbsp;</P><P>Many thanks</P> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 09:44:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717273#M27491 mjm6na 2021-02-06T09:44:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717275#M27493 <P>Do you have those special characters in</P> <UL> <LI>values</LI> <LI>labels</LI> <LI>or variable names</LI> </UL> <P>?</P> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:01:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717275#M27493 Kurt_Bremser 2021-02-06T10:01:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717282#M27495 <P>My apologies for the vagueness.&nbsp;</P><P>The special characters are in the labels in SAS.</P> Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:33:11 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717282#M27495 mjm6na 2021-02-06T10:33:11Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717807#M27550 <P>Before going any further, make sure that all your software components use the same encoding. If SAS uses UTF-8, set STATA to the same.</P> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:47:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/SAS-to-STATA/m-p/717807#M27550 Kurt_Bremser 2021-02-09T08:47:03Z