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Problem Note 63327: The XLSX engine does not read certain characters in data exported using the SAS® Enterprise Guide® export wizard
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When you use the IMPORT procedure with the XLSX engine, certain UTF-8 characters are not read in from a Microsoft Excel file. This issue occurs when the Excel file is generated by an export from SAS Enterprise Guide via the SAS Enterprise Guide wizard.
You encounter the problem because the XLSX engine does not interpret values such as _x0000_, _x0020_, and so on correctly. This behavior occurs because the shared strings with embedded encoded Unicode are not converted into UTF-8 encoding.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | z/OS | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4_M5 | 9.4_M6 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||