In SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) English with DBCS and Unicode support, with encoding set to UTF-8 on Windows (English), if you select non-ANSI characters from the cells in VIEWTABLE, the contents change to unintelligible characters. For example, the problem will occur if you select Chinese or Japanese characters, or even the ≥ symbol.

This behavior occurs because the edit control in SAS^® 9.1 (English with DBCS and Unicode Support) is a native ANSI window whose character set is ANSI, and thus, cannot accept non-ANSI characters. The highlighted contents in the cell cannot be used for edit mode actions such as copy or paste.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

There is no workaround for this problem. To avoid the unintelligibe characters, do not perform edit mode actions in VIEWTABLE.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: