topic Re: How to import Simplified Chinese rtf files into SAS? in SAS Programming

How to import Simplified Chinese rtf files into SAS?

joycehyj1109 — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 03:19:15 GMT

I tried to import Simplified Chinese rtf files with following code, but the all simplified Chinese word will become like below.

Is there any method that I could get the simplified Chinese word?

filename rtf "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\&output..rtf";

data rtf_input;
infile rtf
delimiter='00'x MISSOVER DSD lrecl=32767
firstobs=1;
format f1 $500.;

input

f1 $ ;
run;

ballardw — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:32:25 GMT

Since RTF is not intended for data interchange I wish you lots of luck with this project.

I would recommend to try saving the file to plain text format so most of the RTF code tags go away. That might make reading the file a lot simplier.

What do you mean by "simplified Chinese word"?

mkeintz — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:49:53 GMT

I am totally unfamiliar with these issues, so this question might be wholly naïve: have you set session encoding, and filename encoding?

ChrisNZ — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 23:32:15 GMT

I looked at the third character 分 (the easiest to identify to my western eyes).

The document seems to use gb2312 encoding.

I am unsure that SAS supports it. If not, you'll have to transcode to UTF (and use a UTF SAS session).

So you'll have to read the value B7D6 and transform it to U+5206.

woshibug — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 03:11:11 GMT

you'll have to read the value B7D6 and transform it to U+5206. As you mention,how could I transform B7D6 to U+5206?