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Problem Note 53684: An exception occurs when you use the Compare Data task in a German edition of SAS® Enterprise Guide®
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When you use the Compare Data task in SAS Enterprise Guide, an exception occurs in the SAS report. The exception, which is caused by certain German characters (for example, ü), occurs when SAS Enterprise Guide runs on a Unicode server.
Here is an example:
Unable to read SAS Report file. Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 90, position 70. -------------------------- Technical Information Follows -------------------------- Exception Details: ---------------------------------------- Exception type: System.Xml.XmlException Message: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 90, position 70. Source: System.Xml Target Site: Throw Stack Trace: at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)......
This problem occurs only when the result type is SAS Report. It does not occur when the result type is HTML.
To work around this problem, use an English locale by running the following code:
options locale=en_US;
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 Enterprise Guide | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 5.1 | 6.1_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Windows Vista | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 5.1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||