Problem Note 32440: Unintelligible characters appear in SAS® 9.2(TS1M0) when you select a cell containing UTF-8 data and non-ANSI characters in VIEWTABLE
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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
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||