Problem Note 38478: SAS BI Web Services for .Net improperly handles non-ascii data.
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Non-ascii data streamed to SAS® through SAS BI Web Services for .Net may be lost or displayed as "???????".
The following example shows input data which contains a value in the Russian character set and the resulting XML within SAS.
The Input Data:
<InData><Column1>12345</Column1><Column2>qwerty</Column2><Column3>йцукен</Column3></InData>
The Resulting XML file:
<INDATA><COLUMN3>??????</COLUMN3><COLUMN2>qwerty</COLUMN2><COLUMN1>12345</COLUMN1></INDATA>
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS BI Web Services for .NET | Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
A fix for this issue for SAS BI Web Services for Net 9.13 is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/biwebsrv.html#038478
non-ascii data is lost when sent through SAS BI Web Service for .Net
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Data Management |
| Date Modified: | 2010-02-12 16:03:13 |
| Date Created: | 2010-01-25 10:06:44 |