I'm on Linux, SAS 9.4, generating hundreds of PDF reports. Randomly (maybe 1% of the time) a page in a given PDF document prints Asian/Mandarin characters for some unknown reason. 䙯潤 楬 慴楯 猠睩瑨楮⁴慲来琠穯湥 [This should be a sentence that actually says: "Ratio is below the target zone"] However, the very next page will come out just fine. I've attached an example of a portion of a problem page. I believe all the data in the datasets behind the PDF report contain all U.S.standard ASCII/WLATIN1 characters. I do NOT need UTF8 or other newer encodings for this project. Can I force SAS ODS to only provide output (or have encoding) set to 'latin1' or 'wlatin1'? - Adding a system option in my program (e.g, options ENCODING= latin1; ) does nothing except give me a WARNING line - I've tried (libname mylib "\mypath" outencoding=asciiany; ) but can't see how this can help ODS. Any thoughts?
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