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Globalization and National Language Support for Your Version 8.2 SAS Environment

Overview Historically, SAS has provided options one could use to set up the system to handle data in non-US operating environments. However, these solutions required one to set the options in many different places. With the 8.2 release, SAS expands and simplifies its support for national languages on all platforms - from the mainframe to the PC. This applies to data as well as to code, and is especially important to international customers who are running applications in client/server, cross-platform environment. Many features have been consolidated into a simple LOCALE option for a simplified user interface. The FILE, FILENAME and INFILE statements support the new ENCODING= option that enables users to dynamically change the character set encoding for processing external data.

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PublisherSAS Institute File FormatPDF
Date PublishedJune 2001
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