Complete the following steps to set up SAS to read data in Arabic:

1. Select Start ► Settings ► Control Panel ► Regional and Language Options.
   
   
   1. Select the Regional Options tab, Standards and Formats, and choose Arabic(<country>).
   2. Select the Languages tab and Supplemental language support and check "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages".
   3. Select the Advanced tab and Language for Non-unicode programs, and select Arabic (<country>).
   4. Select the Advanced tab and Code conversion tables, and select each checkbox for the appropriate Arabic settings.
   5. Click OK and reboot.
   
   
   
2. Open Windows Explorer, drill to C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\nls\en and modify the sasv9.cfg file to include these changes:
   
   
   1. Comment out these lines as follows:
      
      
      /* Set Windows Locale */ /* -LOCALE "en_US" */
   2. Add the following lines:
      
      
      -encoding="warabic" -locale="ar_SA"
   3. Select File ► Save.
   
   
   
3. Open SAS and set the fonts.
   
   
   1. Select the Log window.
   2. Select Tools ► Options ► Fonts and change the font set to Courier New and the Script setting to Arabic or change the font to Simplified Arabic.

      Note: You cannot use the SASFont or SAS Monospace Font because these fonts support Western encoding only.

   
   
   

   Operating System and Release Information

   Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
   			Reported	Fixed*
   SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9 TS M0
   		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9 TS M0

   * 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.