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Problem Note 43537: The last character of a double-byte character set variable is truncated when the variable length is 257
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When you use the SAS® to generate output with the ODS PDF statement or the XML procedure, the length of a double-byte character set (DBCS) variable is 257. If the last character is a DBCS character, then that character is truncated, which causes two incorrect behaviors in SAS output:
- The quotation mark is unpaired in the ODS PDF output and XML output.
- Question marks appear as corrupted data in the SAS log.
If the last character is encoded as a single-byte character, that character is truncated, but the truncation of that character has no effect on other characters in the variable.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Linux | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||