topic Re: Comments appears weird in SAS Programming

Comments appears weird

SasStatistics — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:06:01 GMT

Looking at some old files, the text (comments) appear very weird, I do not know why this happend or if it is possible to "get back" the original text?

Example on how it looks like:

The letters involved are of the form: Å, Ä, Ö (Swedish).

Re: Comments appears weird

andreas_lds — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:44:52 GMT

Could be an encoding problem. So:

Which tool created the files?
Which tool is used right now?

I had a similar problem: code file created by SAS EG using "unicode" when saving the program. When i opened the file with SAS Studio (set to utf-8) everything was ok, but after saving EG doesn't recognise the encoding properly. Reason: SAS Studio removes the bom (byte order mark) that EG relies on.

Re: Comments appears weird

SasStatistics — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:21:06 GMT

To my knowledge it is manually typed in SAS EG. SAS EG is used right now aswell.

Any possible repairs?

Re: Comments appears weird

andreas_lds — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:09:46 GMT

If the file has been corrupted, that the only way to repair it is replacing the "bad" chars manually. Maybe SAS-Tech-Support has an idea, i would contact them .

Re: Comments appears weird

ballardw — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:03:34 GMT

What FONT is your Editor currently using?

Character values, if ASCII, do not have standard appearance for numeric values above 126 between fonts designed by different folks.