Informats for NLS

$UCS2BEw. Informat

Reads a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session and then converts the character string to big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding.

Category:

Character

Syntax
Syntax Description
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Syntax

$UCS2BEw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

Comparisons

The $UCS2BEw. informat performs processing that is opposite of the $UCS2Bw. informat.

Examples

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

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
ucs2str=input (' ', $ucs2be2.); put ucs2str=$hex4;	ucs2str=5927

Statements

Result

----+----1----+

ucs2str=input (' [untitled graphic]

', $ucs2be2.);

put ucs2str=$hex4;

ucs2str=5927