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Encoding Values for a SAS Session

UNIX Encoding Values

The encodings in the following tables are valid in UNIX environments.

Note:   If an encoding value contains a hyphen (-), enclose the encoding value in quotation marks.   [cautionend]

Single-Byte Encodings for UNIX
ENCODING= Value Description
arabic Arabic (ISO 8859-6)
cyrillic Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5)
greek Greek (ISO 8859-7)
hebrew Hebrew (ISO 8859-8)
latin1 Western (ISO 8859-1)
latin2 Central Europe (ISO 8859-2)
latin5 Turkish (ISO 8859-9)
latin6 Baltic (ISO 8859-4)
latin8 Celtic (ISO 8859-14)
latin9 European (ISO 8859-15)
thai Thai (ISO 8859-11)

Double-Byte Encodings for UNIX
ENCODING= Value Description
big5 Traditional Chinese (Big5)
euc-cn Simplified Chinese (EUC)
euc-jp Japanese (EUC)
euc-kr Korean (EUC)
euc-tw Traditional Chinese (EUC)
shift-jis Japanese (SJIS)

UNIX also supports the UTF-8 Unicode encoding.

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