The UNICODE function does not convert an NCR surrogate pair into the appropriate Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) character.

For example, you run the following code in a SAS^® session that is using UTF-8 encoding:

The UNICODE function should create a character variable whose value should be the display character that is represented by the surrogate pair. However, instead, the string is written to the SAS log in the following NCR format:

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After the hot fix is applied, the above example code displays the accurate Vietnamese character in the log.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel 9.4_M6 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel 9.4_M5 is available at: