When you are using certain European language editions of SAS 9.3 TS1M2 (the second maintenance release) and you run a procedure such as PROC CORR, the resulting output might contain a mix of languages.

Here is an example. If you run the following code in the German edition of SAS 9.3 TS1M2:

The results will look like this. The text highlighted in yellow should be German:

                                          Das SAS System     

                                        The CORR Procedure

                            3   Variables:    Age      Height   Weight


                                       Einfache Statistiken

    Variable           N    Mittelwert       Std Dev         Summe       Minimum       Maximum

    Age               19      13.31579       1.49267     253.00000      11.00000      16.00000
    Height            19      62.33684       5.12708          1184      51.30000      72.00000
    Weight            19     100.02632      22.77393          1901      50.50000     150.00000


                             Pearson Correlation Coefficients, N = 19
                                    Prob > |r|  under H0: Rho=0

                                          Age        Height        Weight

                         Age          1.00000       0.81143       0.74089
                                                     <.0001        0.0003

                         Height       0.81143       1.00000       0.87779
                                       <.0001                      <.0001

                         Weight       0.74089       0.87779       1.00000
                                       0.0003        <.0001

This problem does not occur in the first maintenance release of SAS^® 9.3 (TS1M1) or in SAS^® 9.4.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS Statistical Procedures 12.1 is available at: