Accessing the SAS(Unicode) environment in SAS-Studio

[Emma_at_SAS]

Hello,

On a local SAS software, I am using SAS(Unicode) to work with a dataset. I am going to send this to a friend who only uses SAS-Studio. How the data can be opened in SAS-Studio? or how can we get the Unicode environment in SAS-Studio?

Thanks

[japelin]

SAS Studio uses Unicode (UTF-8) as its default setting, so you should have no problem sending it as is.
If your friend is using a different character encoding in SAS Studio, your friends can change it in Preference>Text encoding.

[andreas_lds]

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@japelin wrote:

SAS Studio uses Unicode (UTF-8) as its default setting, so you should have no problem sending it as is.
If your friend is using a different character encoding in SAS Studio, your friends can change it in Preference>Text encoding.

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Sorry, but this is wrong. SAS-Studio assumes all text-files (including programs) are in UTF-8, but this doesn't mean, that the underlying app-server is setup to use unicode.

The following log was created using our local sas studio with the default app-server:

 69         proc options option=encoding;run;
 
     SAS (r) Proprietary Software Release 9.4  TS1M5
 
  ENCODING=WLATIN1  Specifies the default character-set encoding for the SAS session.

[japelin]

@andreas_lds 

Thank you for letting me know!

I have only used SAS Studio with SAS ODA, so I did not know about it.

[Emma_at_SAS]

Thanks, andreas_Ids. So, how can I change the encoding to Unicode?

Thanks

[Shmuel]

As already said SAS STUDIO uses UTF8 encoding.

UTF stands for: Unicode Transformation Format.

The 8 in UTF8 defines the input character length. It enables 2 bytes length too.

UTF16 enables up to 4 bytes length (I think it is used by Japanese, Chinese and some other languages)

[Tom · Accepted solution]

In SAS studio just change the SAS Workspace server that you are using to one that is defined to run using UTF-8 encoding.

If you do not see one available then check with your local SAS support to have on stood up for you to use.

[Emma_at_SAS]

Thanks, Tom! Do I ask our IT team to add "SASAppUTF" or the "Change SAS Workspace Server" or I just ask them to give me access to use a UTF environment?

Thanks

[Tom]

The menu I posted should be standard SAS/Studio, but the list of available SAS Workspace servers is what they should control.

So just ask them to give you access to run SAS with Unicode support (encoding='utf-8') and to explain to you how you can connect to it.  How to do it they need to figure out.  SAS will support them.

[Emma_at_SAS]

Also, that UTF access comes to all machines in our department or each person should send a separate request if needed?

Thanks

[Emma_at_SAS]

Hello, 

I thought I share this here for those who may come to this post later. 

In Sas-Studio, under More application options, we have an option for Character policy and we can select the Default text encoding and UTF-8 is an option.

Thanks