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Problem Note 46957: The Hankaku-kana character set is not displayed correctly in SAS® 9.3 for the UNIX operating environment

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The Japanese Hankaku-kana character set is not displayed correctly in the SAS 9.3 Display Manager for the UNIX operating environment. The problem shows up in various ways. For example, as blank spaces where there should be text, or as garbage characters instead of real characters.

The following is an example of garbage characters, which appear on the left side of both rows of the table:

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Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

After you have applied the hot fix, you must modify the X resources SAS.DMSFont: and SAS.DMSboldFont: in the SAS-provided X resource file Resource_ReflX.ja as shown below:

Old setting:
   SAS.DMSFont:       -*-*-Medium-*-Normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-JISX0201.1976-0
New setting:
   SAS.DMSFont:       -*-*-Medium-*-Normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1
Old setting:
   SAS.DMSboldFont:   -*-*-Medium-*-Normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-JISX0201.1976-0
New setting:
   SAS.DMSboldFont:   -*-*-Medium-*-Normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1


Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemBase SAS64-bit Enabled AIX9.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
64-bit Enabled HP-UX9.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
64-bit Enabled Solaris9.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
HP-UX IPF9.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
Linux9.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
Linux for x649.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
Solaris for x649.3_M19.3_M29.3 TS1M19.3 TS1M2
* 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.