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Problem Note 52663: Katakana characters are not generated when you use the KANA option with the KCVT function to convert a KANA string in SAS® 9.4
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When you run the KCVT function with the KANA option in SAS 9.4, the KANA string is not converted correctly.
For example, you run the following code:
data test;
x='c1c2c3c4c58182838485'x;
y=kcvt(x,'ibm','sjis','KANA');
z=kcvt(x,'ibm','sjis');
put x= y= z= ;
run;
The result that occurs is as follows:
x=ﾁﾂﾃﾄﾅ≠ヤ・y=ABCDEabcde z=ABCDEabcde
Notice that the katakana characters for y have not been generated. If the katakana characters were generated, the result would look like this:
x=ﾁﾂﾃﾄﾅ≠ヤ・y=ABCDEｱｲｳｴｵ z=ABCDEabcde
This problem does not occur in SAS 9.3.
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 | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 |
| Z64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4_M1 | 9.4_M2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||