how to work with accented text

[alepage]

Hello,

Here's a piece of code, I have elaborated.

data _null_ ;
file mail;
put "Bonjour / Hi,";
put "";
put "Noter que le traitement CPE est maintenant completée / Take note that CPE process is now completed";
put "";
put "Si vous désirez plus d'information, s'il vous plaît contactez-nous / If you need more information, please contact us.";
put "";
put "Merci/Thanks,";
put "";
run;

For example, the second line is at the begining like that:

put "Noter que le traitement CPE est maintenant completée.// Take note that CPE process is now completed"

Then I saved the file and transfer it from my pc to a unix server.  Thereafter, text into the file become has shown above.

Is there a way to correct that situation when we make a cp  path1/filename to path2/ on a unix server and to keek the accented accent.

Thanks in advance for your help

[AlanC]

For text, use the '/' character to indicate new line. For example, the code below:

put   "Bonjour / Hi,"
       / "Noter que le traitement CPE est maintenant completée / Take note that CPE process is now completed"

      // "Si vous désirez plus d'information, s'il vous plaît contactez-nous / If you need more information, please contact us."
      //"Merci/Thanks,"
      ;

[Reeza]

If this were a text file, I'd say to make sure the encoding was set correctly for Unix....
I'd also consider using BYTE() or a different function to generate those symbols directly on a Unix system.