topic Re: printing french char in a pdf file in MVS in ODS and Base Reporting

printing french char in a pdf file in MVS

Inp — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:40:54 GMT

Hi
I want to write French char in a PDF file in mainframe. Can any one help me out how to do it. When I use usual method using put statment, it doesn't print french char é
I am using

MVS
SAS 8.2

//**********************************************************
//STEP1 EXEC SAS
//PDFRPT DD DSN=VA562.PDF,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=INFOREAL,
// DCB=(RECFM=VB,LRECL=259,BLKSIZE=27998),
// SPACE=(TRK,(50,25),RLSE),LABEL=EXPDT=60005
//SYSIN DD DATA,DLM=##

OPTIONS SYMBOLGEN MLOGIC MPRINT;

DATA TEMP;
INPUT X 1.;
CARDS;
2
3
RUN;

ODS PDF FILE=PDFRPT NOTOC STYLE=NORMALP

DATA _NULL_;
SET TEMP;

FILE PRINT PS=28 LS=139 LL=LNSLEFT;
PUT
@ 1 'réservée ' /
ODS PDF CLOSE;
ODS LISTING;

RUN;

Re: printing french char in a pdf file in MVS

sbb — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:21:46 GMT

You will want to explore the SAS NLS (National Language Support) resources, available with the SAS support http://support.sas.com/ web SEARCH facility or consider the Google advanced search argument below:

sas 8.2 nls national language support site:sas.com

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: printing french char in a pdf file in MVS

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:39:12 GMT

Hi:
Generally, the FILE PRINT technique is not the technique recommended for use with the Output Delivery System. Instead, as per this Tech Support Note, FILE PRINT ODS is the recommended technique.
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts664.pdf
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/v7papers/ODS_DATA.pdf
http://support.sas.com/kb/14/766.html
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsug/61723/HTML/default/a000933279.htm
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsug/61723/HTML/default/a00471329.htm
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsug/61723/HTML/default/a002414280.htm
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsug/61723/HTML/default/a000472814.htm

With ODS, techniques like PUT @1, PUT @15, etc do not work as expected or in the same manner as they do with LISTING output.

However, on a Windows system, using FILE PRINT ODS techniques, I was able to print the accent marks in a title, a footnote and a column header using the program code below.

cynthia
[pre]
DATA TEMP;
infile datalines;
INPUT X 1.;
return;
datalines;
2
3
;
RUN;

ods listing close;

filename pdfrpt 'c:\temp\pdfrpt.pdf';
ODS PDF FILE=PDFRPT NOTOC;

title 'réservée';
footnote 'réservée';
DATA _NULL_;
SET TEMP;
label x='réservée';
FILE PRINT ODS footnote;
PUT _ODS_;
run;
ODS PDF CLOSE;
ODS LISTING;
[/pre]

Re: printing french char in a pdf file in MVS

Inp — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:15:15 GMT

Hi
Cyinthia and Scott. Your answer put me to right direction. thanks for your help as you always do.

Thanks

Inp