This issue is resolved in Viya.
In SAS 9.4, there is a dependency on PERL for
In SAS 9.4, third party limitations will not allow PRX-functions (prxmatch(), prxparse(), etc) that deal with regular expressions cannot process multi-byte character sets.
Consider the usage of the following DS2 packages to perform regular expression matching against Unicode string data on the supported systems other than z/OS and 32-bit Windows operating systems.
PCRXFIND
PCRXREPLACE
On the z/OS and 32-bit Windows operating systems, the following DS2 functions can be used instead.
PRXMATCH
PRXCHANGE
PRXPARSE
PRXPOSN
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