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Printing Chinese characters using ODS EXCEL

appeln — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:10:35 GMT

Hello,

I have the following issue. I have a data set that contains some Chinese text. The data set is encoded in latin1, on a Linux system

Encoding latin1 Western (ISO)

I am trying to print some of these text fields that have Chinese text to an excel file using ODS EXCEL.

ods excel file="/project/Chinese_text.xlsx" style=sansPrinter;

proc print data=project_data noobs label;

var id chinese_text other_text;

run;

ods excel close;

The Excel file has rubbish for the chinese_text column. The other columns are correct and the encoding of the excel file is 'utf8'.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone has in resolving this issue.

Thanks,

Re: Printing Chinese characters using ODS EXCEL

Reeza — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:47:54 GMT

That's an interesting question...I would suggest contacting tech support on this one since this forum may not have a lot of people who deal with this issue mainly because it's English based.

Re: Printing Chinese characters using ODS EXCEL

appeln — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:25:46 GMT

Thank you, I will try tech support.

Re: Printing Chinese characters using ODS EXCEL

Ksharp — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 07:49:20 GMT

I think you would not get any problem, if your sas encoding is 'utf-8' or 'euc-cn' .
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