| 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)
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]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
 
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