If you set your web browser language to Hebrew, importing data sources in SAS Visual Analytics might fail with an error.

For example, you might encounter this issue when you complete steps similar to the following:

1. Set your web browser to the Hebrew language.
2. Log on to SAS Visual Analytics and create a new report.
3. Click Add Data in the Data pane and click the Import button.
4. Select a data set that contains a string similar to the following in the Description Field:

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5. Click the Import button. The following error occurs, and the data source is not loaded:

You might also encounter the problem when you upload a data source on the LASR Server by using the SAS^® Visual Analytics Administrator web application.

In this case, you receive an error similar to the one displayed in the following image: 

If you check the log in the pop-up message, you see that a portion of the log and code is missing:

This missing content indicates that the loading process failed.

In both cases reported above, the issue occurs because the Description Field contains some illegal characters.

To work around this issue, remove the string from the Description Field or set your SAS^®9 server encoding to UTF-8.

This issue also occurs in SAS^® Environment Manager when you add data sources from this application and you set your web browser language to Hebrew.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Visual Analytics 7.51 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Environment Manager Mid-Tier 2.6 is available at: