Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:09:15 -0500
Reply-To: Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: National characters and export to SPSS
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Is your SAS session in UTF-8 encoding (or if not, what localization)? What
version of SAS?
-Joe
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Alex_DPC <alexander.konn@iea-dpc.de> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 5:25 pm, andre <wie...@ined.fr> wrote:
> > Alex
> > the problem is rising more and more.
> > i have studied the new Stattransfer (10) and encounter the utf
> > encoding at every corner but solved.
> > For export to Spss STT is exporting a utf file in any case
> > and of course, your Spss (18) must be regulated before on utf yes as
> > it is impossible
> > to change it while a table is open.
> >
> > Direct Import by Spss of a sas table seems to ok except the enerving
> > of personal formats
> > this is why STT is needed
> >
> > The direct Export to SAS from Spss(18) is with a surprise in the proc
> > format code file
> > There are no value names!!!
> >
> > With STT 10, exporting to sas seems also working good
> > even in Sas 9.2.2 the note about a recognizing of an utf file mention
> > that
> > a conversion was made.
> >
> > why does proc export act so because there is no encoding option
> > in the proc export.
> >
> > What i have not tried : under a chinese pc with an dbyte encoding sas
> > localized
> > trying to export to a chinese version of ibm-spss ! ;-)
> >
> > HTH
> > Andre
> >
> > On 23 mar, 18:13, Alex_DPC <alexander.k...@iea-dpc.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > I wonder if anyone has experience with exporting national characters
> > > from SAS (sas7bdat) to SPSS (sav). Here's my problem:
> > > * I have a UTF-8 encoded SAS file (sas7bdat)
> > > * I export this file to SPSS (sav) using PROC EXPORT
> > > * When I re-import the file to SAS everything's just fine, but when
> > > I open it in SPSS, national characters are destroyed.
> >
> > > I know that there's an SPSS option "Unicode" and have set it to "Yes".
> > > When I create a "Unicode" file including national characters with SPSS
> > > itself, close it and reopen it, everything is displayed fine.
> >
> > > Now the reason could be that the file is not properly exported from
> > > SAS or that SPSS doesn't read it properly. Any ideas?
> >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Alex
> >
> >
>
>
> André,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply. Interesting that this works with
> Stattransfer. Unfortunately I can't really use it to solve my problem,
> because this functionality is part of a bigger SAS batch program.
> I have contacted SPSS support and was told that the SPSS file, which
> SAS writes contains the proper data, but the encoding is not properly
> marked as UTF-8. To me this looks like a bug in PROC EXPORT.
> Now I'm waiting for a reply from SAS support. If you're interested, I
> can post it here.
>
> BTW, the import of a UTF-8 encoded sas7bdat file into SPSS 18.01 does
> not work for me. The program crashes. SPSS support could not explain
> this, but as always I was told that everything would work way better
> in the next release...
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
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