How to output "≥" in the title for a plot using SAS9.1.3

[jakarman]

remember to have seen a solution by Cynthia Zender using ODS and using the escape character.
Do not know remember the related limitations. This is an old presentation http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf

Unicode is also requiring a DBCS thinking approach instead of SBCS. I think with the ods method you should able to solve it as long as you needed char is in the latin-1 char-set or part of the html-chars .
 

[jakarman]

Anna_h , You are possible struck by encoding tables of the single byte characterset.

I have seen Chyntia Zender giving some very good answers on this topic, also on forums at linkedin.

The ODSescape sequence is very attractive (titles)

The issue with SBCS is that they can differ from several countries as of national language support. The Latin-1 is a well known in ASCII world (Windows/Unix). The B3 is used in mainframes for superscript 3 in Ebcdic world. The AE is the sign for the contracted >= symbol there.
Html is mostly based on ASCII by standard guidelines and that is knowing Unicode and more.
Are you running on a IBM Mainframe using that with codepage 437?   

[GraphGuy · Accepted solution]

OK - Here's a solution using all "SAS/Graph software fonts" (that are built-in to SAS, even in very early versions).  As before, this assumes you're using gtitles (ie, the title is part of the graph/png/whatever image, rather than being written outside the graph as html)...

It uses the SAS 'math' font, and the >= character is character "M" of that font (which I've never used before in 20+ years), as described on the following doc page:

SAS/GRAPH(R) 9.2: Reference, Second Edition

title1 font=swiss "Here is the " font=math "M" font=swiss " character";

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;
plot height*weight;
run;

[jakarman]

That ^ has a lot to do with:

" SPECIFYING AN ESCAPE CHARACTER FOR ODS

Before you can apply or perform in-line formatting with ODS, however, you must first tell ODS what character will be used as the ODS ESCAPECHAR character value (ESCAPECHAR). There are two default escape character sequences: (*ESC*) and '03'x. The default (*ESC*) was new in SAS®9, while '03'x was available starting in SAS 8.2; however, both of those ESCAPECHAR values have too many keystrokes for me. I prefer setting a single character as my ESCAPECHAR, such as:

ods escapechar='^';  "

The byte(179) should return b3 in the code page, same as Rob-s approach.

The latin-1 Unix is defined as ISO/IEC 8859-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  (b3 again superscript 3)