ENCODING Subcommand (SAVE TRANSLATE command)

The ENCODING subcommand specifies the character encoding for SAS, Stata, tab-delimited text, and CSV data files.

• The ENCODING subcommand is only valid with TYPE=SAS, TYPE=STATA, TYPE=TAB, and TYPE=CSV.
• The subcommand name is preceded by a slash and followed by an optional equals sign and a quoted value.
• For SAS and Stata files, the quoted value can be LOCALE or SYSTEM or one of the values in the Encodings column in Character Encoding table. For SAS 9 files, the value can also be UTF8.
• For tab-delimited text files and CSV files, the quoted value can be LOCALE, UTF8, UTF16, UTF16BE, UTF16LE, a numeric Windows code page value (for example, '1252'), or an IANA code page value (for example, 'iso8859-1' or cp1252)
• For SAS 9, tab-delimited text, and CSV files, the default is UTF8 in Unicode mode and LOCALE in code page mode. For Stata and earlier releases of SAS, the default is always LOCALE.
• The ENCODING setting also applies to the value labels file specified on the optional VALFILE subcommand for TYPE=SAS.

SAVE TRANSLATE
  /OUTFILE='/data/sasdata.sas7bdat'
  /VALFILE='/data/saslabels.sas'
  /TYPE=SAS /VERSION=7 /PLATFORM=WINDOWS
  /ENCODING='Windows-1252'.