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SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

AmitSingh2 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:15:47 GMT

Does SAS Universal Viewer renders Japanese/Chinese chars properly when viewed as the chars are displayed not properly when viewed in any version of viewer.

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

japelin — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:50:41 GMT

When I had used Japanese dataset and universal viewer, it displayed properly.

What is the encoding of the dataset you are trying to display?
What is the version of the Universal Viewer that is not displaying properly?

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

AmitSingh2 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 05:58:05 GMT

Its 1.4 version and UTF-8 encoded dataset. Please share steps or details for which is working for you.

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

japelin — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:08:48 GMT

I tried with Windows + SAS 9.4 TS1M7 + SAS Universal Viewer 1.5.
Without doing anything, I was able to display the Unicode dataset Japanese and Chinese.

Can SAS unicode support, not SAS Universal Viewer, display the dataset you are dealing with properly and without garbling?

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

AmitSingh2 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 07:44:35 GMT

Thanks for the snapshot and detailed info. Yes we are using the same 9.4 & 1.5 as well.
Yes its visible in SAS tools but not in viewer.
We are generating datasets using this procs from json . Do you think that may be issue if its different from yours :-

proc datasets;
append base=work.&dataset_name data=jsondata force;
run;

data "&output_path" (encoding=any compress=binary);
set work.&dataset_name;
run;

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

japelin — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:54:41 GMT

Why do you specify any for encoding= dataset option?

ANY specifies that no transcoding occurs, so I think this is what is preventing it from displaying correctly.

Try to submit the following code.

data "&output_path" (compress=yes);
  set work.&dataset_name;
run;

Re: SAS Universal Viewer Support For Japanese/Chinese or UTF-8 Chars.

AmitSingh2 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:03:04 GMT

Thanks (compress=yes) working fine for viewer to render UTF-8 chars properly.