Because East Asian languages have
thousands of characters, double (two) bytes of information are needed
to represent each character.
Each East Asian language
usually has more than one DBCS encoding system, due to nonstandardization
among computer manufacturers. SAS processes the DBCS encoding information
that is unique to each manufacturer for the major East Asian languages.
With the proper software
extensions, you can use SAS for the following functions:
-
display any of the major East Asian
languages in the DBCS version of the SAS System
-
import data from East Asian language
computers and move the data from one application or operating environment
to another (which might require SAS ACCESS or other SAS products)
-
convert standard East Asian date
and time notation to SAS date values, SAS time values, and SAS datetime
values
-
create data sets and various types
of output (such as reports and graphs) that contain East Asian language
characters.