Encoding Values in SAS Language Elements |
When the encoding of the SAS session is different from the encoding of the SAS file or from the data that resides in the SAS file, transcoding must occur. Consider a SAS file that was created in the Western Latin1 encoding, then moved to an IBM mainframe that uses the German EBCDIC encoding. In order for the IBM mainframe to successfully access the file, the SAS data file must be transcoded from the Western Latin1 encoding to the German EBCDIC encoding. For information about transcoding concepts, including SAS language elements that contain options for transcoding, see Transcoding for NLS.
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