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Formats for NLS

$UCS2XEw. Format



Processes a character string that is in native-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding, and then writes the character string in the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Comparison
Example
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Syntax

$UCS2XEw.


Syntax Description

w

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

Default: 8
Range: 1-32000

Details

The $UCS2XEw. format writes a character string in the encoding of the current SAS session. It processes character strings that are in native-endian, 16-bit, UCS2 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding.


Comparison

The $UCS2XEw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2Xw. format.


Example

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

Statements Result

----+----1
x ='e5a4a7'x; /* Japanese ' [untitled graphic]' in UTF8 */;

put x $utf8xe10.;
[untitled graphic]


See Also

Formats:

$UCS2Xw. Format

Informats:

$UCS2Xw. Informat

$UCS2XEw. Informat

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