Informats for NLS

$UCS4XEw. Informat

Reads a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then converts the character string to 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding.

Category:

Character

Syntax
Syntax Description
Comparisons
Examples
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Syntax

$UCS4XEw.

Syntax Description

w

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

Default:	8
Range:	1-32000

Comparisons

The $UCS4XEw. informat performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS4Xw. informat.

Examples

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

Statements	Result
	----+----1----+
ucs4str=input (' ', $ ucs4xe2.); put ucs4str=$hex8;	ucs4str=00005927

Statements

Result

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

ucs4str=input (' [untitled graphic]

', $ ucs4xe2.);

put ucs4str=$hex8;

ucs4str=00005927