$UESCEw. Format

Processes a character string that is in Unicode escape (UESC) representation, and then writes the character string in the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UESCEw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Details

If the data is not supported by the encoding of the current SAS session, the data remains in UESC.

Comparisons

The $UESCEw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UESCw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS session encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
----+----1----+----2
x=put('¥u5927',$uesce10.) ;
x=put('¥uu5927',$uesce10.) ;
x=put('¥uuu5927',$uesce10.) ;
x= xxx
x=¥u5927
x=¥uu5927

See Also

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