DBCS

DBCS

Determines whether to process text as encoded in a double-byte character set or as a single-byte character set encoding method

Alias: KANJI

Default: NODBCS

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation

Windows specifics: all

Syntax
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Syntax

-DBCS | -NODBCS

DBCS: specifies to process text as if encoded in one of the double byte character set (DBCS) encoding method.
NODBCS: specifies to process text as encoded in a single byte character set (SBCS) encoding method.

Details

The DBCS system option determines whether to process text as encoded in a double-byte character set (MDBCS) encoding method or a single-byte character set (SBCS) encoding method.

The DBCS system option is used for various reasons. These include converting lowercase data that are input into SAS to uppercase, and supporting languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

See Also

System option: DBCSLANG
System option: DBCSTYPE

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Alias:	KANJI
Default:	NODBCS
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation
Windows specifics:	all