Hello SAS Gurus, recently one of the DataWarehouse database code page is changed to unicode code page and we would like to test with SAS EG (5.3) application whether SAS can interpret unicode/multi byte characters properly or not. For, this a simple test is to create a sample file with multibyte character and try to read it from SAS EG and print it as output. PFA document for input file, sas code, output and sas log. After futher analysis I found SAS Note http://support.sas.com/kb/51586 and it is suggesting to change sas executable to use utf-8 sas executable. My Conerns/questions: - There are approx 400 users and doing this system wide change, I would like to know impact - Does it impacts metadata server? - Does any of the users need to change their programs or is there any known issues with sas functions that won't work as in latin1 character set? - Any additional disk space required for sas work space? - Any additional memory will be utilized at run time? - Any performance changes w.r.t run time of sas program? - If some issue happened can I simply roll it back?
- Can this be achieved with out doing system wide change?
Did any one made this kind of change in past? Appreciate your inputs.
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