topic How to check if server is configured as a unicode server in SAS Programming

How to check if server is configured as a unicode server

jerry898969 — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:32:42 GMT

Hello,

I'm installing SAS 9.3 TS1M0 Server on my test server. I'm basing my installation on a different servers sas setup. I'm at the point in the install where it asks about Reginal Settings and there is a check box that says "Configure as a Unicode server". How can I check the other SAS installation on the other server to see if it is setup as a Unicode server?

Re: How to check if server is configured as a unicode server

ChrisNZ — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 22:16:32 GMT

One way to check is to create a table in the work and run proc contents.

You can also run proc options group=LANGUAGECONTROL to see the default encoding value.

If you see an ISO format like

ENCODING=WLATIN1

Encoding	wlatin1 Western

then you know ASCII is being used.

Unicode encoding would return UTF-8.

See the values here:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/nlsref/67964/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0882t2muy4l94n19cno6z40xmuz.htm

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/nlsref/67964/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0reo28sy0m4xpn1sa2v2sbwzap8.htm

Re: How to check if server is configured as a unicode server

jerry898969 — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:58:19 GMT

Hi Chris,

thank you that helped a lot. It was encoded as WLATIN1 so it doesn't need to be unicode.

Thanks