How to use unicode >= Symbol in SAS/Graph Legend

[jb3]

Hi all,

I would like to use the unicode symbols for <= and >= in a SAS/Graph legend in SAS 9.4M2 on Windows. The unicode symbols are assigned using proc format. How can I achieve this? I use the code below, and the unicode symbol is not rendered as a symbol but as text.

Thanks for your help!

Jonas

goptions reset=all;

proc format;
	value hp
		low-100 = "'2264'x <= 100" 
		100-150 = "101 - 150"
		150-high= ">= 101"
	;
run;

legend1 label=none;

proc gchart data=sashelp.cars;	
	pie Horsepower / 
		discrete
		value=none 
		slice=outside
		other= 0
		legend=legend1
	;
	format Horsepower hp.;
run;

[jklaverstijn]

Hi Jonas,

Have a look at this blog post: http://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2015/07/29/unicode-in-formatted-data-sas-9-40m3/.

It does exactly what you're looking for, although it does require SAS 9.4M3! Kudos to Sanjay Matange.

Regards, Jan.

[RW9]

You will want to a) move to sgplot and gtl, b) check out this blog which has code examples on everything sgplot/gtl related.  Note in this link I have filtered for exactly what you request, but do have a look at the whole blog as there are many examples:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/?s=unicode

[jb3]

Thanks for your answers. Is there really no chance of doing this in SAS/Graph?

[jklaverstijn]

I have given it a shot but the approach taken by the blog is ODS, and thus limited to ODS graphics. So it won't work from eg. the Bar Chart task in EG.

There are examples floating around using hex characters (ALT-codes from the keyboard) in the labels but the results I had with a quick test were inconsistent. But you may want to give that a try.

Reg's Jan.

[GraphGuy · Accepted solution]

One way to do this in SAS/Graph would be to specify *all* the characters in the legend as their 4-digit unicode number. This is a bit cumbersome, but if you only have one (or a few) graphs, perhaps it's an acceptable work-around(?)

proc format;
	value hp
		low-100 = '226400a0003100300030'x
		100-150 = '00300030003100a000ad00a0003100350030'x
		150-high= '226500a0003100300031'x
	;
run;

legend1 label=('Horsepower: ') value=(justify=left font='albany amt/unicode');

proc gchart data=sashelp.cars;	
	pie Horsepower / 
		discrete
		value=none 
		other= 0
		legend=legend1
	;
	format Horsepower hp.;
run;