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Problem Note 49017: Character strings are truncated at 255 characters when you are using the ACCESSCS driver with UTF-8 and DBCS encodings of SAS® data
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Character strings that are more than 255 characters are truncated when you are using the ACCESSCS or PCFILES engines to export SAS data to Microsoft Access databases. The problem occurs in the UTF-8 and any double-byte character set (DBCS) encoding.
To circumvent this issue, use the WLATIN1 encoding if possible.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Linux | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M1 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||