The JAVAIMG device driver does not work properly in SAS^® 9.3 on Linux if the ENCODING option is UTF-8 and the LOCALE option is de_DE (German) or fr_FR (French). You might receive the following error message in this scenario:

    ERROR: Java class generated an exception.

    org.apache.xerces.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
                 at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)

    

If you encounter this problem, you should be able avoid it by adding the following statement before the code that uses the JAVAIMG device driver:

   OPTIONS locale=en_US;
  

One scenario where you might encounter this problem is when the JAVAIMG device driver is used in a SAS^® Stored Process when the SAS^® Stored Process Server is running with UTF-8 ENCODING and your Web browser is using the German or French language.

If the SAS Stored Process Server is running with UTF-8 encoding, then when a user submits a request from their Web browser, a parameter called _USERLOCALE (which indicates the Web browser's language setting) is passed to the SAS Stored Process Server. Then, the SAS LOCALE option is automatically set to the _USERLOCALE value. So, the LOCALE setting for one user request might be diferent than the LOCALE setting for another user request depending on the language setting of their Web browser.

The following code should avoid this problem:

     options LOCALE=en_US;    /* <=== Add this line to Avoid the Problem */

     ods html file='test.html' path="/tmp" ;

        options dev=javaimg;
        goptions device=javaimg;

        proc gchart data=sashelp.retail;
           pie3d year/sumvar=sales;
        run;

     ods html close;

       /* You can reset the LOCALE option back to the  */
       /* original value here if you like.             */

   

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