$UCS2XEw. Format

Processes a character string that is in native-endian, 16-bit, UCS2, Unicode encoding, and then writes the character string in the encoding of the current SAS session.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UCS2XEw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field. Specify enough width to accommodate the 16-bit size of the Unicode characters.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Details

The $UCS2XEw. format writes a character string in the encoding of the current SAS session. It processes character strings that are in native-endian, 16-bit, UCS2 (universal character set code in two octets), Unicode encoding.

Comparisons

The $UCS2XEw. format performs processing that is the opposite of the $UCS2Xw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating environment.
Statements
Result
----+----1
x ='e5a4a7'x; /* Japanese 'xxx' in UTF8 */;
put x $utf8xe10.;
xxx