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Encoding Values for a SAS Session

Windows Encoding Values

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]

Single-Byte Encodings for Windows
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

Windows Double-Byte Encodings
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]

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