topic Re: � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling in SAS Studio https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572881#M7740 I cannot provide the logs unfortunately … Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:23:22 GMT Suminder 2019-07-11T18:23:22Z � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572489#M7735 <P>I have SQL server as the data source and when I register a table in SAS DI, in some of the text fields a black diamond with question mark appears in it. Is there a way to handle this.</P> Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:15:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572489#M7735 Suminder 2019-07-10T19:15:41Z Re: � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572641#M7736 <P>If you can, please provide your code, the associated log and output (if none is information sensitive in nature)</P> Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:51:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572641#M7736 koyelghosh 2019-07-11T09:51:28Z Re: � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572752#M7739 <P>Are you using the same encoding for your SAS/Session and the data in the database?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:16:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572752#M7739 Tom 2019-07-11T14:16:24Z Re: � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572881#M7740 I cannot provide the logs unfortunately … Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:23:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572881#M7740 Suminder 2019-07-11T18:23:22Z Re: � diamond with question mark : Unicode Handling https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572886#M7741 the encoding for sas is UTF-8 and for DATASET it is ASCII(ANSI) Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:44:29 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/diamond-with-question-mark-Unicode-Handling/m-p/572886#M7741 Suminder 2019-07-11T18:44:29Z