topic Re: Sysencoding in SAS Programming

Sysencoding

NJGIRL — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:11:04 GMT

Hello,

I need to change &sysencoding from 'wlatin1' to 'UTF-8' so that sas will keep Japanese characters 'as is ' and not change to question marks (ie ???)

Caveat : I only want to do it for one program not the entire system.

Can anyone help me out with the code to accomplish this?

thanks!

Re: Sysencoding

ChrisNZ — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:05:19 GMT

Have you tried the inencoding= and outencoding= libname options?

Re: Sysencoding

Tom — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:09:58 GMT

How are you currently running your SAS programs?

If you are created .sas files and running them from the command line then add the -encoding option to the command line.

Or better still create two different commands that you use to run SAS. One to use WLATIN1 and another to use UTF-8. For example on our systems we have both a sas94 and a sas94_u8 command.

Re: Sysencoding

error_prone — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:35:00 GMT

If a sas workspace Server ist involved, you have to talk to the admins. They have to add a sasapp definition with using the appropriate configs.