https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-data-from-SPSS-to-SAS-with-special-characters/m-p/712280#M219576 <P>Did you try change the encoding of the output dataset to 'UTF=8'?&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>DATA my_data (encoding='UTF-8');</P><P>SET some_data;</P><P>RUN;</P> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:56:23 GMT qoit 2021-01-19T00:56:23Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-data-from-SPSS-to-SAS-with-special-characters/m-p/712240#M219540 <P>I have a data set in SPSS and for some columns (variables), I have observations which are notes in French or Spanish with special characters. How may I read my data into SAS and keep the correct French/Spanish text?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:58:11 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-data-from-SPSS-to-SAS-with-special-characters/m-p/712240#M219540 Emma_at_SAS 2021-01-18T21:58:11Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-data-from-SPSS-to-SAS-with-special-characters/m-p/712280#M219576 <P>Did you try change the encoding of the output dataset to 'UTF=8'?&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>DATA my_data (encoding='UTF-8');</P><P>SET some_data;</P><P>RUN;</P> Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:56:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-data-from-SPSS-to-SAS-with-special-characters/m-p/712280#M219576 qoit 2021-01-19T00:56:23Z