Sysencoding

[NJGIRL]

Hello, 

I need to change &sysencoding  from 'wlatin1' to 'UTF-8'  so that sas will keep Japanese characters 'as is ' and not change to question marks (ie ???)

Caveat : I only want to do it for one program not the entire system. 

Can anyone help me out with the code to accomplish this?

thanks!

[ChrisNZ]

Have you tried the inencoding= and outencoding= libname options?

[Tom]

How are you currently running your SAS programs?

If you are created .sas files and running them from the command line then add the -encoding option to the command line.

Or better still create two different commands that you use to run SAS.  One to use WLATIN1 and another to use UTF-8.  For example on our systems we have both a sas94 and a sas94_u8 command.

[error_prone]

If a sas workspace Server ist involved, you have to talk to the admins. They have to add a sasapp definition with using the appropriate configs.