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.
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.