Problem Note 36269: Inconsistent transcoding using the KCVT function produces incorrect results in SAS® 9.2
Inconsistency exists between transcoding in SAS® 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2 for some of SJIS punctuation characters.
The example below uses the KCVT function and illustrates the problem. In SAS 9.2, transcoding does not handle the Unicode x301c character properly:
data;
x='8160'x ; * '～';
un1=kcvt(x,'sjis','ucs2b');
sj1=kcvt(un1,'ucs2b','sjis');
put un1= $hex4. sj1=;
un2=unicodec(x);
sj2=unicode(un2);
put un2= sj2=;
y='301c'x ; * unicode tilde ;
sj3=kcvt(y,'ucs2b','');
put sj3 = sj3 ;
sj4=unicode(y,'utf16b');
put sj4= sj4;
run;
9.1.3 Result:
un1=301C sj1=～
un2=\uFF5E sj2=～
sj3=～ ～
sj4=～ ～
9.2 Result:
un1=FF5E sj1=～
un2=\uFF5E sj2=～
sj3=
sj4=～ ～
The results in SAS 9.1.3 are correct. The results in SAS 9.2 are incorrect.
A hotfix is planned for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
*
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: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-06-22 13:50:30 |
| Date Created: | 2009-06-18 11:19:02 |
