Options for Commands, Statements, and Procedures for NLS

Commands, Statements, and Procedures for NLS by Category

The data set control and data access categories of options for selected SAS statements are affected by NLS. The following table provides brief descriptions of the statement options. For more detailed descriptions, see the dictionary entry for each statement option:

Summary of NLS Statements by Category
Category	Commands, Statements, and Procedures for NLS by Category	Description
Data Access	CVPBYTES=, CVPENGINE=, and CVPMULTIPLIER= Options	Specifies attributes for character variables that are needed in order to transcode a SAS file.
	ENCODING= Option	Overrides and transcodes the encoding for input or output processing of external files.
	INENCODING= and OUTENCODING= Options	Overrides and changes the encoding when reading or writing SAS data sets in the SAS library.
	ODSCHARSET= Option	Specifies the character set to be generated in the META declaration for the output.
	ODSTRANTAB= Option	Specifies the translation table to use when transcoding an XML document for an output file.
	RENCODING= Option	Specifies the ASCII-based or EBCDIC-based encoding to use for transcoding data for a SAS/SHARE server session that is using an EBCDICANY or ASCIIANY session encoding.
	XMLENCODING= Option	Overrides the encoding of an XML document to import or export an external document.
Information	TRANSCODE= Option	Specifies an attribute in the ATTRIB statement (which associates a format, informat, label, and length with one or more variables) that indicates whether character variables are to be transcoded.
ODS: Third-Party Formatted	CHARSET= Option	Specifies the character set to be generated in the META declaration for the output.
	TRANTAB= Option	Specifies the translation table to use when you are transcoding character data in a SAS file for the appropriate output file.

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