Date:         Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:35:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Ben Powell <bpowell555@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Ben Powell <bpowell555@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS to DOS UTF-8
Comments: To: Tom Abernathy <tom.abernathy@GMAIL.COM>
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That's a good idea Tom and may well work -
I'll try it out :)

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:57:15 -0400, Tom
Abernathy <tom.abernathy@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Can you work around it by having DOS write
the directory output to a file?
>
>filename foo temp;
>options noxwait;
>x dir &qsource /t:w /a:-d >
"%sysfunc(pathname(foo))" ;
>...
>infile foo encoding='utf-8';
>...
>
>
>On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:38:18 -0400, Ben
Powell <bpowell555@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>Hi, yes see below. I tried that and it seems
to error on the pipe engine,
>>
>>
>>http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/
en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewe
>r.htm#a000146932.htm
>>
>>
>>3643  filename foo pipe "dir "&qsource" /
t:w /a:-d";
>>3644
>>3645  data f;
>>3646  retain flag;
>>3647  length f $1056.;
>>3648  format last_mod_date date9.;
>>3649  infile foo encoding="utf-8" dlm="¬";
>>                 --------
>>                 23
>>ERROR 23-2: Invalid option name
ENCODING.
>>
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:21:08 -0400, Tom
Abernathy <tom.abernathy@GMAIL.COM>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Did you try adding the ENCODING option
to the FILENAME statement?
>>>
>>>On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:38:08 -0400, Ben
Powell <bpowell555@GMAIL.COM>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi List,
>>>>
>>>>I've found pipe and 'sysexec copy' do not
maintain utf-8 encoded file
>names
>>>>such as Andalucia with an accent on the
I.
>>>>
>>>>If I have the correct filenames in a sas
dataset the copy works but the
>>>>paste pastes an incorrectly resolved
filename.
>>>>
>>>>Using pipe to get dir contents, the
resultant dataset gets a filename but
>>>>its incorrect.
>>>>
>>>>As I only have three exceptions I've
hardcoded some tranwrds, but would
>be
>>>>interested to know if this is addressed
somewhere. The encoding option
>for
>>>>instance does not work with the pipe
filename.
>>>>
>>>>/* Neither of the below handle UTF-8
correctly */
>>>>filename foo pipe "dir "&qsource" /t:w /
a:-d";
>>>>%sysExec copy &source &destination;
>>>>
>>>>Is this a dos limitation?
>>>>
>>>>Regards