| Encoding Values for a SAS Session |
The encodings in the following tables are valid in the Windows operating environment.
Note: If an encoding-value contains a hyphen (-), enclose the encoding value
in quotation marks. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
| Description | Windows ENCODING= Value | MS-DOS ENCODING= Value | IBM-PC ENCODING= Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | warabic | msdos720 | pcoem864 |
| Baltic | wbaltic | msdos775 | pcoem921 |
| Central Europe | wlatin2 | not applicable | pcoem852 |
| Cyrillic | wcyrillic | not applicable |
pcoem866
pcoem855 |
| Central Europe | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem852 |
| Estonia | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem922 |
| European | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem858 |
| Farsi | not applicable | not applicable | pc1098 |
| French Canadian | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem863 |
| Greek | wgreek | msdos737 | not applicable |
| Hebrew | whebrew | not applicable | pcoem862 |
| Indian Script Code | not applicable | not applicable | pciscii806 |
| Nordic | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem865 |
| Portuguese | not applicable | pcoem860 | not applicable |
| Thai | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem874 |
| Turkish | wturkish | not applicable | pcoem857 |
| USA | not applicable | not applicable | pcoem437 |
| Vietnamese | wvietnamese | not applicable | not applicable |
| Western | wlatin1 | not applicable | pcoem850 |
| Description | PCMS ENCODING= Value | No Vendor ENCODING= Value |
|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | ms-950 | big5 |
| Simplified Chinese | ms-936 | not applicable |
| Japanese | ms-932 | shift-jis |
| Korean | ms-949 | not applicable |
Note: Windows also supports the utf-8 Unicode encoding. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
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