Formats for NLS

$UCS4Xw. Format

Processes a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in native-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding.

Category:	Character
Alignment:	left

Syntax
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Syntax

$UCS4Xw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit size of the Unicode characters.

Default:	4
Range:	4-32767

Details

The $UCS4Xw. format writes a character string in 32-bit, UCS4 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding, by using byte order that is native to the operating environment.

Comparisons

The $UCS4Xw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS4XEw. format. If you are exchanging data within the same operating environment, use the $UCS4Xw. format. If you are exchanging data with a different operating environment, use the $UCS4Bw. format or $UCS4Lw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.

Statements	Results
	----+----1
x = ' '; put x $ucs4x4.;	'00005927'x (binary) or '27590000'x (little endian)

Statements

Results

----+----1

x = '

put x $ucs4x4.;

'00005927'x (binary) or '27590000'x (little endian)