topic Re: failture to transcode in SAS Programming

failture to transcode

Julie99999 — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:59:00 GMT

HI SAS community,

I have this peculiar running error that states "failure to transcode" while I attempted to run SAS on one go. I tried run my SAS code block by block and it run successfully.

I probably introduced some non-English character.

Anyone know how to fix this without going through my code line by line, which is 2000 lines?

Is there any "encoding= " option I can use that solves this problem?

TIA!!!!

Error: Integration technologies failed to submit the code. [Error] Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN1_CE encoding because it contained characters which are not supported by your SAS session encoding. Please review your encoding= and locale= SAS system options to ensure that they can accommodate the data that you want to process. A portion of the source string, in hex representation is:
[None] 2b8b496b1b24: 3b 2a 27 3b 2a 22 3b 2a 2f 3b 71 75 69 74 3b 72 |;*';*";*/;quit;r|
[None] 2b8b496b1b34: 75 6e 3b 0d 0a 4f 50 54 49 4f 4e 53 20 50 41 47 |un;..OPTIONS PAG|
[Error] Some code points did not transcode.

Re: failture to transcode

Patrick — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:21:04 GMT

Curious that it works when run in portions.

You could copy/paste your code into Notepad++ and then use under menu Search the last entry in the list "Find characters in range...."

If your code is dynamic then it could of course be the data used to generate the SAS code that contains a non-ascii character.

Re: failture to transcode

Ksharp — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:01:10 GMT

It looks like you are using SAS/EG . T
alking to your SAS Administrator to change your sas session into UTF-8 encoding .
if you are using Windows SAS ,check file sasv9.cfg .
if Unix/AIX/Linux SAS, check file sasenvlocal .

Re: failture to transcode

Julie99999 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:36:19 GMT

thank you so much!!!!!! it worked!!!!!
I was going to manually check line by line and your trick nailed it. I was able to find the non-ascii using the way you suggested. problem solved in 10 seconds literally!!!
thanks a ton

Re: failture to transcode

Julie99999 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:37:25 GMT

thanks a lot Ksharp for your reply!!! I'm using SAS/EG

Re: failture to transcode

Ksharp — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:45:15 GMT

Yeah . Adding the following option in file " sasv9.cfg " and you could using sas with utf-8 encoding.

-encoding 'utf-8'

Also you could search it at support.sas.com and know more about how to change sas encoding .