https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829638#M327793 <P>I think the garbled characters are a functional defect of Universal Viewer.<BR />When opening the xpt(v5) file at hand, the characters are garbled even if the character encoding is utf-8 or SJIS.</P> <P>Unlike SAS datasets, xpt files do not have encoding information embedded in them. Therefore, when opening an xpt file, the only way to know the encoding other than asci is to guess it from the byte array, but I don't think Universal Viewer has such a feature.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:17:46 GMT japelin 2022-08-22T11:17:46Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829627#M327790 Hi guys, how to solve this issue , there are unrecognized characters open .xpt using universal viewer ? I can't open v8 xpt using pc sas, why? upload the picture later, thanks Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:14:26 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829627#M327790 blueskyxyz 2022-08-22T10:14:26Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829633#M327791 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="blueskyxyz_0-1661163601894.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74565i19334CAC71980996/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="blueskyxyz_0-1661163601894.png" alt="blueskyxyz_0-1661163601894.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="blueskyxyz_1-1661163657004.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74566i2B21B379A77F509D/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="blueskyxyz_1-1661163657004.png" alt="blueskyxyz_1-1661163657004.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="blueskyxyz_2-1661163684443.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74567i6BB4D51D6994D838/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="blueskyxyz_2-1661163684443.png" alt="blueskyxyz_2-1661163684443.png" /></span></P> <P>unrecognized characters for label and value,&nbsp; does xpt have different encoding like utf-8 or zh_cn?</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:22:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829633#M327791 blueskyxyz 2022-08-22T10:22:59Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829638#M327793 <P>I think the garbled characters are a functional defect of Universal Viewer.<BR />When opening the xpt(v5) file at hand, the characters are garbled even if the character encoding is utf-8 or SJIS.</P> <P>Unlike SAS datasets, xpt files do not have encoding information embedded in them. Therefore, when opening an xpt file, the only way to know the encoding other than asci is to guess it from the byte array, but I don't think Universal Viewer has such a feature.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:17:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-solve-this-issue-there-are-unrecognized-characters-open/m-p/829638#M327793 japelin 2022-08-22T11:17:46Z