The following categories relate to NLS issues:
Categories of NLS Functions
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converts one currency
to another currency
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processes double-byte
character set.
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processes data and time
data.
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processes data based
on the specified locale.
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processes variable information.
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| Category |
Language elements |
Description |
| Character | KCVT Function | Converts data from
one type of encoding data to another encoding data. |
| TRANTAB Function | Transcodes data by using the specified translation
table. |
| UNICODE Function | converts Unicode characters to the current
SAS session encoding. |
| UNICODEC Function | converts characters in the current SAS session
encoding to Unicode characters. |
| UNICODELEN Function | specifies the length of the character unit
for the Unicode data. |
| UNICODEWIDTH Function | specifies the length of a display unit
for the Unicode data. |
| Date and Time | NLDATE Function | Converts
the SAS date value to the date value of the specified locale by using the date format descriptors. |
| NLDATM Function | Converts the SAS datetime value to the time
value of the specified locale by using the datetime-format descriptors. |
| NLTIME Function | Converts the SAS time or the datetime value
to the time value of the specified locale by using the NLTIME descriptors. |
| DBCS | KCOMPARE Function | Returns the result
of a comparison of character expressions. |
| KCOMPRESS Function | Removes specified characters from a character
expression. |
| KCOUNT Function | Returns the number of double-byte characters
in an expression. |
| KINDEX Function | Searches a character expression for a string
of characters. |
| KINDEXC Function | Searches a character expression for specified
characters. |
| KLEFT Function | Left-aligns a character expression by removing
unnecessary leading DBCS blanks and SO/SI. |
| KLENGTH Function | Returns the length of an argument. |
| KLOWCASE Function | Converts all letters in an argument to lowercase. |
| KPROPCASE Function | Converts Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese
(CJKT) characters. |
| KPROPCHAR Function | Converts special characters to normal characters. |
| KPROPDATA Function | Removes or converts unprintable characters. |
| KREVERSE Function | Reverses a character expression. |
| KRIGHT Function | Right-aligns a character expression by trimming
trailing DBCS blanks and SO/SI. |
| KSCAN Function | Selects a specified word from a character expression. |
| KSTRCAT Function | Concatenates two or more character expressions. |
| KSUBSTR Function | Extracts a substring from an argument. |
| KSUBSTRB Function | Extracts a substring from an argument according
to the byte position of the substring in the argument. |
| KTRANSLATE Function | Replaces specific characters in a character
expression. |
| KTRIM Function | Removes trailing DBCS blanks and SO/SI from
character expressions. |
| KTRUNCATE Function | Truncates a string to a specified length
in byte unit without breaking multibyte characters. |
| KUPCASE Function | Converts all letters in an argument to uppercase. |
| KUPDATE Function | Inserts, deletes, and replaces character value
contents. |
| KUPDATEB Function | Inserts, deletes, and replaces the contents
of the character value according to the byte position of the character value in the argument. |
| KVERIFY Function | Returns the position of the first character
that is unique to an expression. |
| Encoding | ENCODCOMPAT Function | Verifies
the transcoding compatibility between two encodings. |
| ENCODISVALID Function | specifies a valid encoding name. |
| Locale | GETLOCENV Function | Returns the current
locale/language environment. |
| GETPXLANGUAGE Function | Returns the current two-letter language
code. |
| GETPXLOCALE Function | Returns the POSIX locale value for a SAS
locale. |
| GETPXREGION Function | Returns the current two-letter region
code. |
| SASMSG Function | Specifies a message from a data set. The returned
message is based on the current locale and a specified key. |
| SASMSGL Function | Specifies a message from a data set. The
message is based on a specified locale value and a specified key value. |
| SORTKEY Function | creates a linguistic sort key. |
| SETLOCALE Function | Specifies the locale keys for the current
SAS locale. |
| Variable Information | VARTRANSCODE Function | Returns
the transcode attribute of a SAS data set variable. |
| VTRANSCODE Function | Returns a value that indicates whether
transcoding is enabled for the specified character variable. |
| VTRANSCODEX Function | Returns a value that indicates whether
transcoding is enabled for the specified argument. |