Usage Note 14294: A warning message about Japanese (Shift-JIS) encoding occurs when you invoke SAS® (English with DBCS) or SAS® (Japanese)
When you invoke SAS® 9.x with a Japanese (Shift-JIS) session encoding, the following warning message might appear in the SAS® log window:
WARNING: The DM font being used is for the Western character set but the required character set is Japanese (Shift-JIS).
To configure SAS® 9.1 so that the warning message does not appear, follow these steps:
- Make the SAS Explorer window active.
- Select Tools ► Fonts.
- Under Fonts, select a Japanese font.
- Under Script, select Japanese.
- Select OK.
To configure SAS® 9.4 so that the warning message does not appear, follow these steps:
- Make the SAS Explorer window or SAS log window active.
- Select Tools ► Options ► Fonts.
- Under Fonts, select an appropriate font (an example is Thorndale Duospace WT TC).
- Under Script, select Japanese.
- Select OK.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | | | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4_M5 | | 9.4 TS1M5 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
The error that occurs is "The DM font being used is for the Western character set but the required character set is Japanese (Shift-JIS)."
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | System Administration ==> Installation ==> NLS (National Language Support)
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| Date Modified: | 2018-08-20 15:48:11 |
| Date Created: | 2005-01-21 12:59:11 |
