Hi, I am having an issue with a datasets with some coding issues. I am seeing "
", "	" , "<U+00A0>" and "°" in some free text fields. Currently I am using a macro to exclude or replace these special characters. Then checked the encoding for the dataset and the sas session (I'm using sas studio). For the session, I see "ENCODING=LATIN1 Specifies the default character-set encoding for the SAS session." and for the dataset "ENCODING is wlatin1 Western (Windows)". I'm wondering if it is because the encoding is not matching so these control characters are not translated properly. I tried using encoding= Windows-1252 but I don't seem to find a way to set my sas session in wlatin1 in sas studio. Is there a way to set it in wlatin1? Or if there is another route to translate these control characters (eg. line feed) and special characters (eg. degree symbol)? Thank you!
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