$UCS4Bw. Format

Processes a character string that is in the encoding of the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in big-endian, 32-bit, UCS4, Unicode encoding.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UCS4Bw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 32-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default: 4
Range: 4–32767

Details

The $UCS4Bw. format writes a character string in big-endian, 32-bit, UCS4 (universal character set code in four octets), Unicode encoding. It processes character strings that are in the encoding of the current SAS session.

Comparisons

The $UCS4Bw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS4BEw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1
x = ' Japanese';
put x $ucs4b4.;
'00005927'x (binary)