how to set SAS session encoding to UTF16

[AsakoOkano]

Hi

I have SAS Intelligence platform working on Windows Environment. I want to set my sas app server's session encoding to UTF16 using sasv9_usermods.cfg file.

here what I have tried

1. Add following system option to SASConfig/Lev1/SASApp/sasv9_usermods.cfg. and this did not work.

-ENCODING UTF-16

error message

[Error] The launch of the server process failed because of an invalid or inaccessible CONFIG file.

2. Add following system option to SASConfig/Lev1/SASApp/sasv9_usermods.cfg. and this worked properly.

-ENCODING shift-jis

my environment local is ja_JP and DFLANG is Japanses. DBCS option is specified. I suspect this cause combination mismatch of local and encoding and other system option. but unfortunately I did not figure out which system option is wrong. Please anyone give me advice.

Thanks.

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

If I read the NLS reference correctly Language Japanese only supports SHIFT-JIS, EUC-JP and IBM-939 encoding.

Are you sure that you need to set the SESSION to UTF-16? Perhaps you can get by with using the encoding option on statements such as FILE, Filename, Infile and ODS or INENCODING or OUTENCODING with LIBNAME statements.

[ehbales]

The only version of Unicode that SAS supports as a session encoding is UTF-8. SAS can read and write files that are encoded as UTF-16 or UTF-32. However, neither encoding is supported in a SAS session.

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