https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Encoding-Issues-searching-for-data-with-non-convertible/m-p/465615#M118776 <P>Hi,<BR />we are upgrading our SAS Windows platform from 9.2 Wlatin1 encoding to 9.4 Utf-8.<BR />I read several documents about encoding changing and I'd like to search what caracters are interested from upgade, to evaluate if some information would be lost.<BR />This is my question: when I receive some error/warning about different encoding for old dataset wlatin1 in Utf-8 session, how can I trace the exact cell that contains the data to be converted?<BR />Thank you in advance for any tips.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Costantino</P> Tue, 29 May 2018 07:06:49 GMT Costas 2018-05-29T07:06:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Encoding-Issues-searching-for-data-with-non-convertible/m-p/465615#M118776 <P>Hi,<BR />we are upgrading our SAS Windows platform from 9.2 Wlatin1 encoding to 9.4 Utf-8.<BR />I read several documents about encoding changing and I'd like to search what caracters are interested from upgade, to evaluate if some information would be lost.<BR />This is my question: when I receive some error/warning about different encoding for old dataset wlatin1 in Utf-8 session, how can I trace the exact cell that contains the data to be converted?<BR />Thank you in advance for any tips.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Costantino</P> Tue, 29 May 2018 07:06:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Encoding-Issues-searching-for-data-with-non-convertible/m-p/465615#M118776 Costas 2018-05-29T07:06:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Encoding-Issues-searching-for-data-with-non-convertible/m-p/465886#M118840 <P>I may be wrong, but UTF8 contains all the wlatin1 characters, so there should be no errors. Have you had errors?</P> Wed, 30 May 2018 03:07:58 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Encoding-Issues-searching-for-data-with-non-convertible/m-p/465886#M118840 ChrisNZ 2018-05-30T03:07:58Z