https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Converting-SPSS-sav-data-with-special-symbols/m-p/987782#M380074 <P>I'm trying to convert an older SPSS dataset from 2008 to SAS. This works for the most part but some labels and formats have a&nbsp;� symbol for special characters such as "mu" or a curly apostrophe. Is there any way I can properly convert these datasets?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm using SAS 9.4M8. I'm running SAS on LSAF (a special computing environment for pharma) so changing the character encoding on the SAS side isn't an option. Any suggestions?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 May 2026 07:27:32 GMT ckx 2026-05-12T07:27:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Converting-SPSS-sav-data-with-special-symbols/m-p/987782#M380074 <P>I'm trying to convert an older SPSS dataset from 2008 to SAS. This works for the most part but some labels and formats have a&nbsp;� symbol for special characters such as "mu" or a curly apostrophe. Is there any way I can properly convert these datasets?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm using SAS 9.4M8. I'm running SAS on LSAF (a special computing environment for pharma) so changing the character encoding on the SAS side isn't an option. Any suggestions?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 May 2026 07:27:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Converting-SPSS-sav-data-with-special-symbols/m-p/987782#M380074 ckx 2026-05-12T07:27:32Z