The language control
category of SAS system options are affected by NLS. The following
table provides brief descriptions of the SAS system options. For more
detailed descriptions, see the dictionary entry for each SAS system
option:
| Category |
Language elements |
Description |
| Environment control: Language control | DATESTYLE= System
Option | Identifies the sequence of month, day, and year when the ANYDTDTM, ANYDTDTE, or ANYDTTME informats encounter
input where the year, month, and day determination is ambiguous. |
| DBCS System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS | Recognizes double-byte
character sets (DBCS). |
| DBCSLANG System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS | Specifies
a double-byte character set (DBCS) language. |
| DBCSTYPE System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS | Specifies
the encoding method to use for a double-byte character set (DBCS). |
| DFLANG= System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS | Specifies the
language for international date informats and formats. |
| ENCODING System Option: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS | Specifies
the default character-set encoding for the SAS session. |
| FSDBTYPE System Option: UNIX | Specifies a full-screen double-byte
character set (DBCS) encoding method. |
| FSIMM System Option: UNIX | Specifies input method modules
(IMMs) for full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). |
| FSIMMOPT System Option: UNIX | Specifies options for input
method modules (IMMs) that are used with a full-screen double-byte character set (DBCS). |
| LOCALE System Option | Specifies a set of attributes in a SAS
session that reflect the language, local conventions, and culture for a geographical region. |
| LOCALELANGCHG System Option | Determines whether the language
of the text of the ODS output can be changed |
| NLSCOMPATMODE System Option: z/OS | Provides national language
compatibility with previous releases of SAS. |
| PAPERSIZE= System Option | Specifies the paper size for the printer
to use. |
| TRANTAB= System Option | Specifies the translation tables that
are used by various parts of SAS. |
| URLENCODING= System Option | Specifies whether the argument to
the URLENCODE function and to the URLDECODE function is interpreted using the SAS session encoding or UTF-8 encoding. |
| Files: External files | BOMFILE System Option | Specifies
whether to write the byte order mark (BOM) prefix on Unicode-encoded external files. |
| Files: SAS files | RSASIOTRANSERROR System Option | Displays
a transcoding error when illegal data is read from a remote application. |
| Input control: Data Processing | DATESTYLE= System Option | Identifies
the sequence of month, day, and year when the ANYDTDTM, ANYDTDTE, or ANYDTTME informats encounter input where the year, month,
and day determination is ambiguous. |
| SAS files | VALIDMEMNAME System Option | Specifies
the rules for naming SAS data sets, views, and item stores. |
| VALIDVARNAME= System Option | Specifies the rules for valid SAS
variable names that can be created and processed during a SAS session. |
| Sort: Procedure options | SORTSEQ= System Option: UNIX, Windows,
and z/OS | Specifies a language-specific collating sequence for the SORT and SQL procedures to use in the current
SAS session. |