$UCS4Bw. Informat

Reads a character string that is encoded in big-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character

Syntax

$UCS4Bw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:4
Range:4–32000

Comparisons

If you are processing data within the same operating environment, then use the $UCS4Xw. informat. If you are processing data from different operating environments, then use the $UCS4Bw. and $UCS4Lw. informats.

Example

These examples use the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1----+
z=put('Zero1',$UCS4B20.);
x=input(z,$UCS4B20.);
put x;
Zero1