SBCS, DBCS, and Unicode Encoding Values for Transcoding Data

The following table presents a list of SBCS, DBCS, and Unicode encoding values for transcoding data for all operating environments. The encoding values are valid for SAS language elements that contain options for transcoding.

Note: If an encoding value contains a hyphen (-), enclose the encoding value in quotation marks.

SBCS, DBCS, and Unicode Encoding Values Used to Transcode Data

Encoding Name	Short Name	Description	Maximum Characters Per Byte
aarabic	aara	Arabic Macintosh	1
agreek	agrk	Greek Macintosh	1
ahebrew	aheb	Hebrew Macintosh	1
aiceland	aice	Icelandic Macintosh	1
any	anye	no transcoding is specified	1
arabic	arab	Arabic ISO	1
aroman	arom	Roman Macintosh	1
athai	atha	MacOS 21-Thai	1
aturkish	atur	Turkish Macintosh	1
aukrainian	aukr	Ukrainian Macintosh	1
big5	big5	Traditional Chinese Big5	2
cyrillic	cyrl	Cyrillic ISO	1
dec-cn	zvms	Simplified Chinese DEC	4
dec-jp	jvms	Japanese DEC	2
dec-tw	yvms	Traditional Chinese DEC	4
ebcdic037	e037	North American EBCDIC	1
ebcdic275	e275	Brazil EBCDIC	1
ebcdic424	e424	Hebrew EBCDIC	1
ebcdic425	e425	Arabic EBCDIC	1
ebcdic500	e500	International EBCDIC	1
ebcdic838	e838	Thai EBCDIC	1
ebcdic870	e870	Central European EBCDIC	1
ebcdic875	e875	Greek EBCDIC	1
ebcdic905	e905	Latin 3 EBCDIC	1
ebcdic924	e924	European EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1025	ecyr	Cyrillic EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1026	etur	Turkish EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1047	elat	Western EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1097	e097	Farsi Bilingual EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1112	ebal	Baltic EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1122	eest	Estonian EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1130	evie	Vietnamese EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1137	e137	Devanagari EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1140	e140	North American EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1141	e141	Austria/Germany EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1142	e142	Denmark/Norway EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1143	e143	Finland/Sweden EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1144	e144	Italy EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1145	e145	Spain EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1146	e146	United Kingdom EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1147	e147	France EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1148	e148	International EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1149	e149	Iceland EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1153	e153	Latin 2 Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1154	e154	Cyrillic Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1155	e155	Turkey Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1156	e156	Baltic Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1157	e157	Estonia Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1158	e158	Cryillic Ukraine Euro EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1160	e160	cp1160 EBCDIC	1
ebcdic1164	e164	cp1164 EBCDIC	1
ebcdicany	eany	enables you to create a data set that is compatible with all EBCDIC encodings	1
euc-cn	zeuc	Simplified Chinese EUC	2
euc-jp	jeuc	Japanese EUC	4
euc-kr	keuc	Korean EUC	4
euc-tw	yeuc	Traditional Chinese EUC	4
fujitsu-cn	zfuj	Simplified Chinese FACOM	4
fujitsu-jp	jfug	Japanese FACOM	4
fujitsu-ko	kfuj	Korean FACOM	4
fujitsu-tw	yfuj	Traditional Chinese FACOM	4
gb18030	gbke	Simplified Chinese GB18030	4
greek	grek	Greek ISO	1
hebrew	hebr	Hebrew ISO	1
hitachi-cn	zhit	Simplified Chinese HITAC	6
hitachi-jp	jhit	Japanese HITAC	6
hitachi-ko	khit	Korean HITAC	6
hitachi-tw	yhit	Traditional Chinese HITAC	4
hitsas-jp	jhts	Japanese XHITAC	4
hitsas-ko	khts	Korean XHITAC	4
hitsas-tw	yhts	Traditional Chinese XHITAC	4
hp15-tw	yhpx	Traditional Chinese HP15	2
ibm-1381	zpce	Simplified Chinese PCIBM	2
ibm-930	j930	Japanese Katakana	4
ibm-933	kibm	Korean IBM	4
ibm-935	zibm	Simplified Chinese IBM	4
ibm-937	yibm	Traditional Chinese IBM	4
ibm-939	jibm	Japanese IBM	4
ibm-942	j942	Japanese PCIBM	2
ibm-949	kpce	Korean PCIBM	2
iso2022cncns	zist	Traditional Chinese ISO-2022	4
iso2022cngb	ziso	Simplified Chinese ISO-2022	4
iso2022jp	jiso	Japanese ISO-2022	8
iso2022kr	kiso	Korean ISO-2022	4
latin1	lat1	Western ISO	1
latin2	lat2	Central European ISO	1
latin3	lat3	Latin 3 ISO 8859/3	1
latin4	lat4	Latin 4 ISO 8859/4	1
latin5	lat5	Turkish ISO	1
latin6	lat6	Baltic ISO	1
latin8	lat8	Latin 8 ISO 8859/14	1
latin9	lat9	European ISO	1
macos-1	jmac	Japanese PCMAC	2
macos-2	ymac	Traditional Chinese PCMAC	2
macos-3	kmac	Korean PCMAC	2
macos-25	zmac	Simplified Chinese PCMAC	2
ms-932	j932	Japanese PCMS	2
ms-936	zwin	Simplified Chinese PCMS	2
ms-949	kwin	Korean PCMS	2
ms-950	ywin	Traditional Chinese PCMS	2
msdos720	p720	Arabic MS-DOS	1
msdos737	p737	Greek MS-DOS	1
msdos775	p775	Baltic MS-DOS	1
open_ed-037	eous	USA Open Edition	1
open_ed-275	eobr	Brazil OpenEdition	1
open_ed-424	eoiw	Hebrew OpenEdition	1
open_ed-425	eoa2	Arabic OpenEdition	1
open_ed-838	eoth	Thai OpenEdition	1
open_ed-870	eol2	Central European OpenEdition	1
open_ed-875	eoel	Greek OpenEdition	1
open_ed-905	eol3	Latin 3 Open Edition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-924	eolt	European OpenEdition	1
open_ed-930	oe30	Katakana OpenEdition	4
open_ed-933	oe33	Korean OpenEdition	4
open_ed-935	oe35	Simplified Chinese OpenEdition	4
open_ed-937	oe37	Traditional Chinese OpenEdition	4
open_ed-939	oe39	Japanese IBM	4
open_ed-1025	eocy	Cyrillic OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1026	eotr	Turkish OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1047	eol1	Western OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1097	eofa	Farsi Bilingual OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1112	eobl	Baltic OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1122	eoet	Estonian OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1130	eovi	Vietnamese OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1140	eo40	North American OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1141	e041	Austria/Germany OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1142	e042	Denmark/Norway OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1143	e043	Finland/Sweden OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1144	e044	Italy OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1145	e045	Spain OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1146	e046	United Kingdom OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1147	e047	France OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1148	e048	International OpenEdition	1
open_ed-1149	e0IS	Iceland OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1153	e053	Latin 2 Euro OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1154	e054	Cyrillic Euro OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1155	e055	Turkey Euro OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1156	e056	Baltic Euro OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1157	e057	Estonia Euro OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1158	e058	Cryrillic Ukraine Euro 1158 OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1160	e060	1160 OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
open_ed-1164	e064	1164 OpenEdition EBCDIC	1
pciscii806	p806	Indian PC	1
pcoem437	p437	USA IBM-PC	1
pcoem850	p850	Western IBM-PC	1
pcoem852	p852	Central European IBM-PC	1
pcoem857	p857	Turkish IBM-PC	1
pcoem858	p858	European IBM-PC	1
pcoem860	p860	Portuguese MS-DOS	1
pcoem862	p862	Hebrew IBM-PC	1
pcoem863	p863	French Canadian IBM-PC	1
pcoem864	p864	Arabic IBM-PC	1
pcoem865	p865	Nordic IBM-PC	1
pcoem866	p866	Cyrillic IBM-PC	1
pcoem869	p869	Greek IBM-PC	1
pcoem874	p874	Thai IBM-PC	1
pcoem921	p921	Baltic IBM-PC	1
pcoem922	p922	Estonia IBM-PC	1
pcoem1129	pvie	Vietnamese IBM-PC	1
pc1098	po98	Farsi PC	1
roman8	rom8	HP Roman 8	1
shift-jis	sjis	Japanese SJIS	2
thai	thai	Thai ISO	1
us-ascii	ansi	enables you to create a data set that is compatible with all ASCII encodings	1
utf-8	utf8	Unicode (UTF-8)	4
utf-16be	u16b	Unicode (UTF-16BE)	2 1
utf-16le	u16l	Unicode (UTF-16LE)	2 1
utf-32be	u32b	Unicode (UTF-32BE)	4 2
utf-32le	u32l	Unicode (UTF-32LE)	4 2
warabic	wara	Arabic Windows	1
wbaltic	wbal	Baltic Windows	1
wcyrillic	wcyr	Cyrillic Windows	1
wgreek	wgrk	Greek Windows	1
whebrew	wheb	Hebrew Windows	1
wlatin1	wlt1	Western Windows	1
wlatin2	wlt2	Central European Windows	1
wturkish	wtur	Turkish Windows	1
wvietnamese	wvie	Vietnamese Windows	1
1UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE have a fixed length of two bytes per character.
2UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE have a fixed length of four bytes per character.