Informats for NLS

$UCS2XEw. Informat

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

Category:

Character

Syntax

$UCS2XEw.

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

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

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

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
ucs2str=input (' ', $ ucs2xe2.); put ucs2str=$hex6;	ucs2str=5927

Statements

Result

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

ucs2str=input (' [untitled graphic]

', $ ucs2xe2.);

put ucs2str=$hex6;

ucs2str=5927