When SAS 9 is installed,
the Base SAS (not SPD Server) default encoding is host dependent and
is determined by the default settings for several SAS system options.
Here are three system options that you should be familiar with:
ENCODING=
establishes the session
encoding, which is the encoding that SAS uses to process syntax, process
SAS data sets, and read and write external files. The default value
is host dependent; all are SBCS encodings:
Default Session Encodings
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OpenEdition EBCDIC cp1047-Latin1
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LOCALE=
specifies the locale
of the SAS session. The locale reflects the local language, conventions,
and culture for a particular geographical region. A locale's
conventions can include the formatting of dates, times, and numbers,
and printer preferences like paper size. Specifying a locale also
automatically sets the default encoding that establishes the session
encoding; a locale has a common encoding that is used most often for
a particular operating environment. The default locale is English,
and the common encodings for English are the defaults above for ENCODING=.
NONLSCOMPATMODE | NLSCOMPATMODE
provides national language
compatibility for non-English data processing using native characters.
For SAS 9, the default is NONLSCOMPATMODE, which provides consistency
for running SAS on multiple systems. NONLSCOMPATMODE specifies that
data is to be processed in the encoding that is set by the ENCODING=
or LOCALE= system option.