Symbol conversion to special character

[singhsahab]

HI All,

The given string "INFECTIONS -TUBO - NEW OR WORSENING" was converted automatically into "INFECTIONS -TUBO €“ NEW OR WORSENING" while connecting SAS to Oracle database. In SAS datasets it is showing right "INFECTIONS -TUBO - NEW OR WORSENING" and in oracle table it is sowing "INFECTIONS -TUBO €“ NEW OR WORSENING".

Can you please suggest how to prevent such type of conversion ? 

Thank you in advance !!

[Kurt_Bremser]

Use a $hex. format, so you can see what is actually stored. Your second hyphen is most probably not a standard hyphen, but a UTF character.

[ChrisNZ]

So many answers already on the web.

Like 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9773995/bad-encoding-why-does-my-medium-sized-dash-is-differentl...

http://community.teradata.com/t5/Database/Seeing-Junk-character-when-inserting-hyphen/td-p/27271

From the second link: "That combination of characters is the 3-byte UTF-8 representation of EN DASH U+2013, misinterpreted as Windows-1252. In short, you are loading UTF-8 data using ASCII as the session character set."

As @Kurt_Bremser said, you are mixing encodings.

Either you match the encodings of your Oracle data and your SAS data, or more likely you just clean your SAS strings to remove any non-latin characters. 

This should work, I can't test as my session is WLATIN1.

 STR=prxchange('s/[^[:ascii:]]/ /', -1, STR );