With Windows you can check the map: bit version of SAS). in this map you should find those nls folders like "en" English and "u8". When your installation is missing that "u8" the person installing SAS did not set the selection utf8 /dbcs/ button for that, while installing SAS. In the u8 folder you will find a sasv9.cfg file. This is the one when activated will run SAS in "u8" mode. The default sasv9.cfg in 9.3 folder is just a pointer to the "en" version. Knowing this it should be very easy to have those different encoding session being get to run. It is not that very complicated. The real complication is understanding utf8 in the first place.
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