Thanks for this Jody! This is an awesome description of all the things that users have to be aware of when working with data for other languages. For students in Programming 1, Programming 2 and other classes where we use a program to make data, our e-learning developers have changed the data creation file to eliminate this issue. In newer versions of the courses, Oliver S. Füβling, becomes Oliver S. Fuszling and other characters like o-umlaut (ö), a-umlaut (ä), u-umlaut (ü), etc were changed in the program to avoid the issue. The transcoding issue doesn't always happen in SAS Studio, sometimes it also occurs in Enterprise Guide, as well, which doesn't have the same features as Studio. Cynthia