topic Re: Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81 in SAS Programming

Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81

abcg — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:43:41 GMT

I am a SAS 9.4 and Studio 3.81 user. I created a script at SAS Studio like this:

data temp;
a='hello “X”';
run;

I save this script as 'temp.sas' and notice its encoding is utf-8 from Notepad++. Then I ran the script at Studio, the Unicode characters can be shown correctly:

But when I attempted to write another script using %include statement to call this script:

%include "temp.sas";

The output dataset cannot display the Unicode character:

My SAS Studio session is WLATIN1.

It's weird it can display Unicode correctly if open the script by selecting the file from "Files and Folders" under Studio. But when I drag the file from Windows File Explorer to Studio and attempt to open it, I get this:

data aaa;
a='hello â€œXâ€';
run;

Any solution of this at Studio to make Unicode character being displayed correctly anywhere, in dataset and in output report?

Re: Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81

Tom — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:11:23 GMT

What happens if you tell SAS that the program file is using UTF-8?

filename pgm "temp.sas" encoding='utf-8';
%include pgm / source2;

Re: Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81

Shmuel — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:19:24 GMT

Is the configuration file accessible by you? Can you update it:

If positive change the encoding code to UTF-8.

Re: Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81

abcg — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:24:22 GMT

No, I don't think I have the access.

Re: Encoding issue on SAS Studio 3.81

abcg — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:28:06 GMT

Yes, it works. It can print out the same as on the script.