importing a sas data file

[Maguin, Eugene]

My question is how to know the encoding on a sas data file. I guessed utf8 when I imported a sas file and it didn't fail so i guessed correctly, but how do i determine that or is this either a google question or a sas community question?

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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[Jon Peck]

A SAS data file should carry its encoding information in the file, so you should  not need to specify it yourself.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 7:57 AM Maguin, Eugene <[hidden email]> wrote:

My question is how to know the encoding on a sas data file. I guessed utf8 when I imported a sas file and it didn't fail so i guessed correctly, but how do i determine that or is this either a google question or a sas community question?

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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