Your traditional Chinese SAS session incorrectly displays Hong Kong supplementary characters


When you use SAS with Traditional Chinese encoding, such as ms-950 or Big5, you might find that some Hong Kong supplementary characters are not displayed correctly. Here is a screen shot:

Workaround

To work around the issue, route output to an HTML file and display the output in a browser. The following ODS statements can be used to generate such an HTML file:

ods html file='c:\temp\test.html';
   proc print data=xxxx.datsetname;
      run;
ods html close;