Regional settings control how SAS software displays text, symbols, numbers, currencies, date and time values, and sorts data. Select the appropriate regional settings for this installation of your SAS software by clicking on the Language (Region) [Locale] combobox control and choosing a regional setting format.
If this installation is part of a planned deployment and it will support multiple languages that cannot all be represented with a single encoding, you can configure your software as a Unicode server to override the default SAS encoding option setting and force SAS to use UTF-8 encoding in all cases. This will result in all datasets, catalogs and text files written by SAS to be written in UTF-8 encoding. This can be useful when sharing data with computers located in various countries with different single-byte and multi-byte language representations, but will make it more difficult to share SAS data with others who use default encodings.
To configure a unicode server, click Configure as a Unicode server check box.
When you have selected the appropriate settings, click Next to continue.