Some national characters in variable names might be converted to other characters when the options VALIDVARNAME=ANY and GETNAMES=YES.

For example, when you import a Japanese CSV file with the options VALIDVARNAME=ANY and GETNAMES=YES, some SAS variable names that contains Japanese characters will be incorrectly convered to other characters.

options validvarname=any;
PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.DATA
            DATAFILE= "\temp\file.csv"
            DBMS=CSV REPLACE;
     GETNAMES=YES;
     DATAROW=2;
RUN;

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for Japanese translations is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: