Problem Note 19100: DBCS characters, such as Japanese or Chinese, are not valid in SAS®
filenames
DBCS characters from such languages as Japanese or Chinese are not valid in SAS filenames (SAS datasets, catalogs, and so on) in releases prior to SAS 9.3.
The VALIDMEMNAME= and VALIDFMTNAME= options are now production SAS options for 9.3.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
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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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | System Administration ==> Installation ==> NLS (National Language Support)
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| Date Modified: | 2007-10-26 13:48:54 |
| Date Created: | 2006-12-04 14:30:20 |
