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Hi,

Does EG support data with chinese characters? Any inputs is much appreciated.

Thanks
Jun
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ChrisHemedinger
Community Manager
Jun,

Yes.

Your SAS workspace session must be running with an encoding that supports the chinese character sets you want to use. For example, you can run with -encoding UTF8, or you could run with -encoding big5.

The -encoding option is a startup/config option:

See:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/nlsref/59554/HTML/default/a002628552.htm

Chris
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