As it is at the server part we still no know wich kind of server Windows or Unix. That does not make really difference, You platform admin has setup the workspace server you are using. At that side, the server, the SAS installation is done. When the installation is supporting multi-languages with Utf-8 ans additional workspace server can be configured supporting utf-8. The goals is: you will see several workspace servers with you Eguide connection. You can choose from them. The Unix-code SAS session will support the DBCS K-functions from the NLS guide. The latin1 SAS session will support the old classic SAS string fucntions.   see: SAS(R) 9.4 National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide, Second Edition Yes there is a difference in SAS language conventions to give attention. That is probably why most SAS sessions are still latin1 and not utf-8. Confusing as many systems (internet. MS-office, --) are already utf-8. When you get a character not present in the limited 255 number of latin-1, that character can not give a place. utf-8 is possible 4-byte not always 1 byte. And there are some more differences to common expectations.       ... View more