In SAS 9, the default SAS DBCS session locale is set to Japanese and the default SAS session encoding is shift-jis.

SAS^® 9.4

On Windows, SAS DBCS is called SAS 9.4 (English with DBCS). To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the configuration file in this directory if you install the SAS default location:

C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\1d

On UNIX, SAS DBCS is installed by default. The invocation script name is sas_dbcs under !SASROOT/bin. To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the sasv9.cfg file in this directory:

!SASROOT/nls/dbcs

SAS^® 9.3

On Windows, SAS DBCS is called SAS 9.3 (English with DBCS). To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the configuration file in this directory if you install the SAS default location:

C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\nls\1d

On UNIX, SAS DBCS is installed by default. The invocation script name is sas_dbcs under !SASROOT/bin. To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the sasv9.cfg file in this directory:

!SASROOT/nls/dbcs

SAS^® 9.2

On Windows, SAS DBCS is called SAS 9.2 (English [DBCS]). To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the configuration file in this directory if you install the SAS default location:

C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2\nls\1d

On UNIX, SAS DBCS is installed by default. The invocation script name is sas_dbcs under !SASROOT/bin. To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the sasv9.cfg file in this directory:

!SASROOT/dbcs

SAS^® 9.1

On Windows, SAS DBCS is called SAS 9.1 (English with DBCS and Unicode support). To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the configuration file in this directory if you install the SAS default location:

C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\nls\1d

On UNIX, SAS DBCS is called DBCS Asian Language Support. The invocation script name is sas_dbcs under !SASROOT/bin. To change the SAS session locale or encoding values, edit the sasv9.cfg file in this directory:

!SASROOT/dbcs

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		z/OS	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* 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.

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Type:	Usage Note
Priority:	low
Topic:	System Administration ==> Installation ==> NLS (National Language Support)

Date Modified:	2013-10-14 16:50:20
Date Created:	2006-08-21 16:33:08