failture to transcode

[Julie99999]

HI SAS community,

I have this peculiar running error that states "failure to transcode" while I attempted to run SAS on one go. I tried run my SAS code block by block and it run successfully. 

I probably introduced some non-English character. 

Anyone know how to fix this without going through my code line by line, which is 2000 lines? 

Is there any "encoding= " option I can use that solves this problem?

TIA!!!!

Error: Integration technologies failed to submit the code. [Error] Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN1_CE encoding because it contained characters which are not supported by your SAS session encoding. Please review your encoding= and locale= SAS system options to ensure that they can accommodate the data that you want to process. A portion of the source string, in hex representation is:
[None] 2b8b496b1b24: 3b 2a 27 3b 2a 22 3b 2a 2f 3b 71 75 69 74 3b 72 |;*';*";*/;quit;r|
[None] 2b8b496b1b34: 75 6e 3b 0d 0a 4f 50 54 49 4f 4e 53 20 50 41 47 |un;..OPTIONS PAG|
[Error] Some code points did not transcode.

[Patrick · Accepted solution]

Curious that it works when run in portions. 

You could copy/paste your code into Notepad++ and then use under menu Search the last entry in the list "Find characters in range...."

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If your code is dynamic then it could of course be the data used to generate the SAS code that contains a non-ascii character.

[Julie99999]

thank you so much!!!!!! it worked!!!!!
I was going to manually check line by line and your trick nailed it. I was able to find the non-ascii using the way you suggested. problem solved in 10 seconds literally!!!
thanks a ton

[Ksharp]

It looks like you are using SAS/EG . T
alking to your SAS Administrator to change your sas session into UTF-8 encoding .
if you are using Windows SAS ,check file sasv9.cfg .
if Unix/AIX/Linux SAS, check file sasenvlocal .

[Julie99999]

thanks a lot Ksharp for your reply!!! I'm using SAS/EG

[Ksharp]

Yeah . Adding the following option in file " sasv9.cfg " and you could using sas with utf-8 encoding.

-encoding 'utf-8'

Also you could search it at support.sas.com and know more about how to change sas encoding .