Problem Note 57525: In a non-English environment, importing data into SAS® Visual Analytics might fail with a message about invalid encoding
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If your browser language is Czech or Slovak, then you might not be able to import data into SAS Visual Analytics. When this occurs, the server.log might contain the following errors:
Failed to transcode data from U_UTF8_CE to U_LATIN2_CE encoding
because it contained characters which are not supported by your SAS session encoding.
Please review your encoding= and locale= SAS system options to ensure that they can
accommodate the data that you want to process. A portion of the source string, in hex
representation is: vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 completed: No
Caused by: com.sas.iom.SASIOMDefs.GenericError: Some code points did not transcode.
This problem occurs when the default table description includes the UTF8 character for a long dash.
There are two workarounds for this issue:
- Manually edit the description field, replacing the default text.
- Use a different browser language.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
If applying the hot fix does not resolve the issue, you might be encountering another variation. For more information, see SAS Note 58506.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Visual Analytics | Linux for x64 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | V.03.00 TS M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | V.03.00 TS M0 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS Visual Analytics 7.3 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/V90.html#57525A fix for this issue for SAS Visual Analytics 7.2 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/T94.html#57525
In some translations (such as Czech and Slovak), the default description of an imported table contains the UTF8 character for a long dash. As a result, the import fails because single-byte SAS Foundation throws an encoding error.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2016-01-29 16:24:51 |
| Date Created: | 2016-01-27 11:41:03 |