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Problem Note 58394: Your traditional Chinese SAS® session incorrectly displays Hong Kong supplementary characters

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When you use SAS with Traditional Chinese encoding, such as ms-950 or Big5, you might find that some Hong Kong supplementary characters are not displayed correctly. Here is a screen shot:

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Workaround

To work around the issue, route output to an HTML file and display the output in a browser. The following ODS statements can be used to generate such an HTML file:

ods html file='c:\temp\test.html'; proc print data=xxxx.datsetname; run; ods html close;


Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemBase SASMicrosoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
z/OS 64-bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft® Windows® for x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
z/OS9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows 109.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 20089.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R29.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Enterprise x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Home Premium x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Professional x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Windows 7 Ultimate x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
64-bit Enabled AIX9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
64-bit Enabled Solaris9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
HP-UX IPF9.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Linux for x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
Solaris for x649.4_M19.4_M19.4 TS1M19.4 TS1M1
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.