Yes, I found I know the encoding but I don't know how to change the encoding. ... View more

Hi jan, I checked my config followed by the process you listed, found that the config is pointing to UTF-8 config. C:\PROGRA~1\SASHome\SASFOU~1\9.4\SAS.EXE -config C:\PROGRA~1\SASHome\SASFOU~1\9.4\sasv9.cfg -objectserver -nologo -noterminal -noprngetlist After that, it occures to me that I have two way to solve my problem: Change the SAS System Command that executed, pointed the -config to other language config file. Manually Change the sasv9.cfg that EG is currently pointing, set the config to other language config file By the first solution, I followed the method from Chris Hemedinger: You can change the registered SAS command that SAS Enterprise Guide uses in order to remove the -NOXCMD startup option. But since this involves unseemly interaction with the Windows registry, you might prefer to use a tool that does this for you. I've placed such a tool here. (It's a ZIP file that contains a program and a ReadMe.txt file with instructions. I changed the command, but it has no effect. I don't know how. So I switch to the second solution: changed the sasv9.cfg the EG is currently pointing. And it worked! Thanks very much for your assistance! ... View more

Hi jklaverstijn, Thanks very much for your kindly help. I checked my setting in EG and it' UTF-8, and the chart label get garbled. However, in SAS DM, the encoding is EUC-CN, and the chart label shows good. It seems that the UTF-8 encoding in SAS EG can't encode Chinese characters correctly. Do you know any way to change the server encoding in SAS EG? I'd like to change the encoding to EUC-CN. it's a local server. Thank you!   ... View more

@Kurt_Bremser You are right. The editor save file in UTF-8 without BOM by default. Thanks for you advice! I think my confuse has been completely addressed.   .   ... View more

Hi Chris, Thanks for your great solution. It's working! Just like you said, It's because EG could not detect the encoding in my SAS program by default.   ... View more

This is exactly what I'm asking. while I'm using EG in windows environment, it seems that EG default the encoding to windows default encoding. ... View more

Hi Kurt,   Thanks for your suggestion, I think your advice would be a work around. But I do not think this is a long-term solution. What confused me a lot is that while I can open code normally in PC SAS but not in EG. This is very weird and I think there should have some ways to work out. ... View more

What I said 'Slow', I mean developing code is slow. I'm here to find a solution rather than argue with such a question. If you think SAS is not outdated, then be it. ... View more

SAS Enhanced Editor is too slow and outdated compared with those modern IDEs. Neither SAS EG could compare with it. Besides, Many modern IDEs support customized function which great enchane the productivity. I do not think it's the way that cause my problems. instead, it's the way SAS EG works. I never encounter such a problem in traditional SAS.     ... View more

Hi Kurt, The code is developed in external editor using UTF-8 encoding. ... View more