SAS^® Studio 2.5 generates the following error messages when producing ODS Graphics output with non-Latin1 encoding:

[Fatal Error] :144:112: Byte "197" is not a member of the (7-bit) ASCII character set.
Internal Exception:org.apache.xerces.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException:
Byte "197" is not a member of the (7-bit) ASCII character set.
org.apache.xerces.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Byte "197" is not a
member of the (7-bit) ASCII character set.

SAS Studio automatically initiates ODS Graphics and opens the HTML, PDF, and RTF destinations. When a procedure that produces graphics output, such as the REG or GLM procedure, is used with non-Latin1 encoding, an error is written to the SAS^® log and the graph is not produced.

To circumvent this problem, do one of the following:

• Close the ODS RTF destination by including the following statement before the procedure code:

  ods rtf (id=web) close;
  

  This results in no RTF output being generated. The PDF output is not accessible from the Results tab, but the PDF file is created as indicated in the SAS log.



• Turn off ODS Graphics by including the following statement before the procedure code:

  ods graphics off;
  

  The error is no longer written to the SAS log, but no graphics output is produced.

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