Question mark instead of dash in ODS Output

[Q1983]

Please forgive me but I cannot replicate the error I am getting.  This is a general question

processing1 = 'Infosys – Distributed'

this is a snippet of code used in a dataset.  In the dataset processing1 shows the value Infosys - Distributed.

However in ODS output the dash is replaced with ?

It appears ODS tagset ExcelXP is converting the dash to a ?.   I realized I did not provide a sample however in general is there a way to get sas to show the dash instead?

[Kurt_Bremser]

Make sure that the dash is a real dash and not some funny UTF character you got from a word processor.

Also try ODS EXCEL; TAGSETS.EXCELXP creates XML text files, which grows much larger than the xlsx (compressed archive of XML files) created by ODS EXCEL. And it might deal correctly with UTF characters.

[Kurt_Bremser]

processing1 = 'Infosys – Distributed'
processing1 = 'Infosys - Distributed'

The first line is from your post, in the second line I typed the dash in manually; by looking closely, you can see the difference.