topic Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You in SAS Programming

URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

Kanyange — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:53:45 GMT

Hi All,

I have run a macro and I get this error...'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE' I am running Enterprise Guide 7.4.

What I found strange is I run the same code last week and didn't get any error.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thank You

Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

ballardw — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:20:05 GMT

Language encoding is data content. If you have a new or updated data source that would be the most likely source of this error.

Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

Ksharp — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 03:07:48 GMT

Or you can change your sas session's encoding into UTF-8 and run code again.

Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

Kanyange — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 06:55:14 GMT

Thank you all for your response...So how can change sas session's encoding into UTF-8?

Kind Regards

Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

Ksharp — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:50:23 GMT

First find out the SAS root directory:



%let path=%sysfunc(pathname(SASROOT));

%put &path ;


Then open  SASV9.CFG  under SAS root directory, change the following:

-CONFIG "C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\zh\SASV9.CFG"

into 

-CONFIG "C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\u8\SASV9.CFG"

Re: URGENT 'Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN9_CE. Please Help. Thank You

ehbales — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 21:13:59 GMT

If you change your SAS session encoding to UTF-8, SAS should be able to support the characters. However, some SAS string functions may ned to be changed to the K function equivalent. Many of the string functions, such as INDEX, SUBSTR, and LENGTH, are byte-oriented. The National Lanugage Support Reference Guide has a table documentin the I18N compatibility of each SAS function that handles character data.

It would be best to know what actually caused the transcoding error to occur. Do you have any output you can share?