How do I change encoding in SAS?

How do I change encoding in SAS?

You can set the session encoding by using the ENCODING= system option, the DBCS options, or the LOCALE= system option. Note: Values for the ENCODING= system option depend on the operating environment.

How do I change the encoding to UTF-8 in SAS?

To run SAS in a session in UTF-8 encoding, you can do either of the following:

1. at SAS invocation add the option, –encoding utf-8.
2. add the system option to the SAS configuration file, ENCODING=UTF-8.

How do I change my UTF-8 encoding?

Click Tools, then select Web options. Go to the Encoding tab. In the dropdown for Save this document as: choose Unicode (UTF-8). Click Ok.

How do you use encoding in SAS?

You can specify encoding for a SAS library by using the LIBNAME statement’s INENCODING= option (for input files) and the OUTENCODING= option (for output files). If both the LIBNAME statement option and the ENCODING= data set option are specified, SAS uses the data set option.

When do you need to change the default SAS session encoding?

When you need to change the default SAS session encoding, follow the steps below. Note that the SAS ® 9.4 English edition is used in the example. Note that this change also changes the encoding used in every SAS configured component.

How is xyz.dataset different from SAS session?

You can clearly see that the XYZ.Dataset was different from SAS session encoding. The dataset had ‘latin1’ encoding and SAS session had ‘UTF-8’ encoding. My next step was to resolve this issue by changing the XYZ.dataset encoding in the WORK library.

How to change default language in SAS 9.3?

You can specify the ENCODING= system option in a configuration file or at SAS invocation. You can also change encoding for SAS tables in infile statement etc. SAS should install (as of 9.3) at least two language options in addition to your default language.

How to convert SAS data set encoding to UTF-8?

UTF-8 is used in the example code as the desired encoding type. The sample code below converts the encoding for a single data set. Note: The CVP engine is a read-only engine for SAS data files only. If the variable length is already long enough to the destination encoding, the CVP is not necessary to be used.