$UTF8Xw. Informat

Reads a character string that is encoded in UTF-8, and then converts the character string to the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character

Syntax

$UTF8Xw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Comparisons

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1----+
x=input (' e5a4a7' x, $utf8x3.);
put x;
xxx