topic SAS Encoding job level in SAS Programming

SAS Encoding job level

helannivas88 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:29:45 GMT

Hi,

Currently sas encoding option has been retrieved from the server setting as latin9. I want to utilise latin1 for one particular SAS job ( either in SAS DI or SAS EG). So before starting the actual code, I have given option encoding = wlatin1 but it throws me a warning message.

SAS option ENCODING is valid only at startup of the SAS System. The SAS option is ignored.

How to use different encoding standard for particular one job or session. Please let me know.

Re: SAS Encoding job level

Jagadishkatam — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:46:10 GMT

The best way to use the encoding option CVP at the time when you create the library as below

libname getdata cvp '~path of datasets';

Re: SAS Encoding job level

andreas_lds — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:26:20 GMT

@helannivas88 wrote:

Hi,

Currently sas encoding option has been retrieved from the server setting as latin9. I want to utilise latin1 for one particular SAS job ( either in SAS DI or SAS EG). So before starting the actual code, I have given option encoding = wlatin1 but it throws me a warning message.

SAS option ENCODING is valid only at startup of the SAS System. The SAS option is ignored.

How to use different encoding standard for particular one job or session. Please let me know.

Sorry, but changing the sessions' encoding is only possible by using the option in a config-file, when using EG or DI-Studio, meaning that you can't use code executed in a client to change the encoding of the already running session.

Re: SAS Encoding job level

ChrisNZ — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:33:33 GMT

You can't change the encoding after the session is started, but you can use libname options INENCODING= and OUTENCODING= and dataset option ENCODING=.

I don't know if DI allows setting SAS session startup parameters.

[Edited for typo. Sorry]

Re: SAS Encoding job level

ChrisNZ — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:31:56 GMT

@Jagadishkatam latin1 and latin9 are single-byte character sets.

Re: SAS Encoding job level

Ksharp — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:15:05 GMT

Try :

data want(encoding='any');
set have;
run;

Re: SAS Encoding job level

helannivas88 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 14:13:07 GMT

No...( encoding=any ) did not help either.

Re: SAS Encoding job level

Tom — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:16:26 GMT

@helannivas88 wrote:

Hi,

Currently sas encoding option has been retrieved from the server setting as latin9. I want to utilise latin1 for one particular SAS job ( either in SAS DI or SAS EG). So before starting the actual code, I have given option encoding = wlatin1 but it throws me a warning message.

SAS option ENCODING is valid only at startup of the SAS System. The SAS option is ignored.

How to use different encoding standard for particular one job or session. Please let me know.

Do you really need to change the session encoding for that? Why not just change the encoding used for the files you are reading/writing?

Are there some specific characters that SAS cannot transcode between the two that is appearing in your data?