You may see one or both of these error messages when accessing a SPDE library that contains one or more data sets in a session using double byte character set (DBCS).

ERROR: Some code points did not transcode.
ERROR: Internal software error detected - hptdrd 8387

Explanation

A transcoding error occurs when attempting to get a list of data files found in one of the directories specified in the LIBNAME statement. SAS attempts to transcode the filenames into the client’s encoding for his SAS session.

SAS uses the maximum length of a data set name to contain the file name which is 32 bytes in single-byte encoding. The destination buffer for the transcoding is 32 bytes long, long enough for single-byte-per-character encoding. If the SAS session is using a multi-byte-per-character encoding, a 20 character file name using DBCS encoding that takes 2 bytes per character is too long to fit into a 32 byte buffer. The buffer must be at least 40 bytes long.

Workaround

Use SAS data set names of no more than 16 bytes in DBCS SAS sessions.

A fix will be implemented in a future release.

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