https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/740885#M231523 <P>Make sure your SAS session uses UTF-8 encoding.</P> Wed, 12 May 2021 17:41:06 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2021-05-12T17:41:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/740778#M231463 <P>Dears,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I have a text variable in excel which contains the symbol "≥".</P> <P>how can i read it in SAS?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>thans and kind regrads,&nbsp;</P> <P>Barbara</P> Wed, 12 May 2021 12:35:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/740778#M231463 COMPAREMISSING 2021-05-12T12:35:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/740885#M231523 <P>Make sure your SAS session uses UTF-8 encoding.</P> Wed, 12 May 2021 17:41:06 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/740885#M231523 Kurt_Bremser 2021-05-12T17:41:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/741074#M231632 <P>It's unclear to me if this was successful.&nbsp; But -- if you haven't read this thread.&nbsp; It certainly is related to this.</P> <P><A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Import-xls-file-using-encoding-UTF-8/td-p/598659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Import-xls-file-using-encoding-UTF-8/td-p/598659</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 13 May 2021 12:12:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/read-special-characters-from-excel/m-p/741074#M231632 PhilC 2021-05-13T12:12:19Z