topic Re: How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf in ODS and Base Reporting

How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf

DmytroYermak — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:22:08 GMT

Hi all,

Сould you please say how to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf?

Re: How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf

RW9 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:56:06 GMT

Does the symbol appear like that in the actual RTF text? Open the rtf file in a text editor, something like notepad++, and look for it. If it looks like that in the raw text file then that is one issue, if it is fine in the plain text file, then the software you are using to render the rtf (propbably Word thats most common) is changing it. Assuming your SAS session is setup for UTF 98 or 16) it should be able to process that character.

Re: How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf

DmytroYermak — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:30:10 GMT

it seems I have found this solution:

~{unicode 03BB}z

and in the define:

define var11 / page " *~{unicode 03BB}z" style(header)=[just=c cellwidth=11.16%] left;

Re: How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf

DmytroYermak — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:32:35 GMT

You are right - I had to write an rtf command to print the symbol. Please see the solution in separate message.

Re: How to output special symbols by proc report using ods rtf

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:54:51 GMT

Hi:

It worked for me in ODS RTF in SAS 9.4 M3 without needing any RTF control strings. I used SASHELP.CLASS since you only wanted to focus on the column headers, the data did not matter.

cynthia