Perform the following steps to specify NLS encoding
for the New Delimited External File wizard or the New Fixed Width
External File wizard.
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Right-click
the destination folder for the external file metadata. Then, open
the appropriate external file wizard. Enter appropriate settings on
the General and External File Location pages. In particular, specify
the physical path for an external file for which NLS options must
be set, such as a Unicode file. Normally, after you have specified
the path to the external file, you can click
Preview to display the raw contents of the file. However, the
Preview button does not work yet, because the required
NLS options have not been specified.
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Click
Next to view either the Parameters page or the Parameters/Delimiters
page, depending on the selected wizard.
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Click
Advanced to display the Advanced File Parameters window.
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Enter
the appropriate NLS encoding for the selected file in the
Encoding options field. Then, click
OK.
For detailed
information about encoding values, see the section on "Encoding Values
in SAS Language Elements" in
SAS National Language Support
(NLS): User's Guide.