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Formats for NLS

$UCS2Bw. Format



Processes a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax
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Syntax

$UCS2Bw.


Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.

Default: 8
Range: 2-32767

Details

The $UCS2Bw. format writes a character string in big-endian, 16-bit, UCS2 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding. It processes character strings that are in the encoding of the current SAS session.


Comparison

The $UCS2Bw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2BEw. format.


Examples

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.

Statements Results

----+----1
x = ' [untitled graphic]';

put x $ucs2b2.;
'5927'x (binary)


See Also

Formats:

$UCS2Lw. Format

$UCS2Xw. Format

$UTF8Xw. Format

$UCS2BEw. Format

Informats:

$UCS2Bw. Informat

$UCS2BEw. Informat

$UCS2Lw. Informat

$UCS2Xw. Informat

$UTF8Xw. Informat

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