SAS Unix with UTF-8 encoding

[kiranv_]

Hi

When I create  test1.txt file in SAS Unix  with UTF-8 encoding and when I tried to FTP the same file using FILENAME encoding=’UTF-8’ , its not FTP’ing the file in UTF-8 format. Please help.

Thanks

Kiran

[ballardw]

Depending on options FTP may translate things. Did you do a text transfer or a binary transfer?

[kiranv_]

I did both and got same results

[Reeza]

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@kiranv_ wrote:

Hi

When I create  test1.txt file in SAS Unix  with UTF-8 encoding and when I tried to FTP the same file using FILENAME encoding=’UTF-8’ , its not FTP’ing the file in UTF-8 format. Please help.

Thanks

Kiran

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So what is happening instead?

What does your code look like and your log?

[kiranv_]

file is transferring succefully but the the file is in ascii format

instead of utf-8

[Ksharp]

Can you transport that file via command line . Try to add BINARY command or not add BINARY .

[kiranv_]

Thanks for reply. Did not try by command line. But the idea is to make an automated process and run the job everydat

[Reeza]

If you have the authorization, SAS can execute command line statements.

X command

%sysexec

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcrolref/61885/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000171045.htm