Saving SAS data having Unicode characters to R using IML gives ERROR

[Tom]

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@sasuser92 wrote:

I am on Windows and get this:

LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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So you need to scrub your SAS datasets of any characters that do not fit into codepage 1252 (also known as WLATIN1 or LATIN1).

data want;
  set have;
*----------------------------------------------------------------------------;
* Convert any UTF-8 character not in LATIN1 codepage to HTML encoded strings ;
*----------------------------------------------------------------------------;
  array _character_ _character_;
  do over _character_;
    do until(_n_=0);
      _n_=kverify(_character_,collate(0,127)||kcvt(collate(128,255),'latin1','utf-8'));
      if _n_ then _character_=tranwrd(_character_,ksubstr(_character_,_n_,1)
                  ,htmlencode(ksubstr(_character_,_n_,1),'7bit'))
      ;
    end;
  end;
run;

Note you might have to make your character variables longer.

You might also need to do something about characters in variable labels.