topic special characters : accent in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/special-characters-accent/m-p/53385#M14742 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anyone know how sas can read (and allow) the accent that is typically used in French names.&nbsp; eg. Montreal the e has an accent on top of the letter.&nbsp; Right now SAS converts it to a ? so Monreal comes up as Montr?al .. Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:04:27 GMT podarum 2011-11-23T17:04:27Z special characters : accent https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/special-characters-accent/m-p/53385#M14742 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anyone know how sas can read (and allow) the accent that is typically used in French names.&nbsp; eg. Montreal the e has an accent on top of the letter.&nbsp; Right now SAS converts it to a ? so Monreal comes up as Montr?al .. Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:04:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/special-characters-accent/m-p/53385#M14742 podarum 2011-11-23T17:04:27Z special characters : accent https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/special-characters-accent/m-p/53386#M14743 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I suggest you research National Language Support (NLS) on the SAS Support site. When you install SAS you have the option of installing NLS for many languages, then when you run SAS you have the option of setting the context for the language(s) required.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:42:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/special-characters-accent/m-p/53386#M14743 SASKiwi 2011-11-24T03:42:20Z