Mixture of latin and greek letters in PROC SGPANEL panel headers/axes

[BjoernHolzhauer]

Dear all,

do you know whether it is possible in SAS 9.4 to get special characters into the labels on axes or panel headers in statistical graphics procedures? E.g. the below works for getting the greek character into the title, but the panel header does not resolve the ^{unicode lambda} bit and just displays that verbatim. Is there some way to make this work with SGPLOT/SGPANEL in this manner or does one need to resolve it via the choice of fonts (see second code below)?

ods escapechar="^";

data xxx;
  cat="Parameter ^{unicode lambda}";
  x=1; y=1; output;
  x=2; y=2; output;
run;
title "Parameter ^{unicode lambda}";
proc sgpanel;
  panelby cat;
  series x=x y=y;
run;

The below actually works for getting a special character into the panel header, but then I cannot add any "normal" test such as "Parameter" in a normal font, any longer.

data xxx;
  cat="l";
  x=1; y=1; output;
  x=2; y=2; output;
run;

proc sgpanel;
  panelby cat / HEADERATTRS=(family="Times New Roman Symbol");
  series x=x y=y;
run;

Does anyone have any ideas for how to get this to work so that I could have a panel header saying e.g. "Parameter λ" or "log(λ)" etc.?

Thanks for any ideas.

[ballardw]

From the online help in SAS 9.3:

^{UNICODE <unicode-value | 'unicode-value'X>}

'unicode-value'X

is syntax used with STAT/GRAPH. A hexadecimal value
is enclosed in single or double quotes followed by an X. The
X specifies that the value in quotes is a hexadecimal value. This
quoted value must be an actual four-place hexadecimal Unicode value or one of
the names listed in the Base.Template.Tagsets template. For example, 03B2 is the
Unicode value for the Alpha symbol. For
details about Unicode values, see Using
Unicode Symbols.

So you may need to look up the code values instead of shorthand such as Lambda

[DanH_sas · Accepted solution]

We support inline UNICODE escapement in any string that is specified, such as axis labels, legend labels, etc. However, we do not currently support escapement from within the data.

[BjoernHolzhauer]

Thanks, good to know that at the moment I cannot get it to work that way.

[kschless]

Has this changed in SAS 9.4? I need special characters for my panel headers.

[djrisks]

Have you got SAS 9.4 Maintenance release 3? I believe you should be able to do that in this release.

Here is a blog from Sanjay Matange:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2015/07/29/unicode-in-formatted-data-sas-9-40m3/