Hi, I know the reply is out of date,  but i did put options msglevel=I and the bad note was no more. ... View more

Hi @Winkle,   I was able to replicate the issue. A recent (Oct 2020) external blog post states that SAS Universal Viewer does "not support any other encodings that [sic] ASCII for XPT files[,]" which "was confirmed to [the blogger] by SAS Support" and that "there are currently no viewers at all that support non-ASCII encoding in SAS-XPT files."   So, extracting the dataset to a library with UTF-8 encoding seems to be the only workaround (as suggested in a 2013 post by our Chinese super user Ksharp; I've successfully tested it as well). ... View more