> What can I do to import this data without data loss?  I do not understand transcoding. You need a SAS session that can understand and store these characters. If your SAS session has no means of recognising some characters, it will replace them. UTF-8 is the de-facto standard nowadays. Run a SAS session using UTF-8 encoding, store the data in UTF-8-encoded data sets and all will be saved. Of course, you now have different issues: 1) These data sets can only be fully read by sessions that also understand these characters, and 2) you now have multi-bytes characters in your strings.  This might be a good read about smart quotes: https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4561-2020.pdf and this too https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/nlsref/n15e31tqdv020en1fok7tp4l9zd5.htm   ... View more

The Content Assessment's code check tool I think fits this requirement: The SAS 9 Content Assessment Tool https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/The-SAS-9-Content-Assessment-Tool/ta-p/678985 SAS Content Assessment https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/whatsdiff/n15vctttmryiybn1d28sbkwq075y.htm ... View more

Hi @MaT721 ,   I am not sure if what I am suggesting is the best way but I think it will work...you can use the SAS Viya REST API to create a compute server session and then submit SAS code which assigns a fileref that points to your image that you want to download and then download it using this API: https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/v3.5/Compute/#download-a-file   Another option which I am not sure will work is to somehow use the Files API but I am not sure if it can be used to access files on disk or just files in the SAS Content Server.   HTH, Eyal   ... View more