ODS TEXT = symbol

This blog post covers how to add a symbol from a font, in this case the up arrow from the Wingdings font.  The symbol I wanted to use was not a unicode character that I could find so I contacted SAS technical support.

If you use the Windows Character Map ( Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map ), you will see the value as 0xE9.  This can be converted to a numeric value using a hex input format as follows:

value = input( 'E9', hex2. ) ;

An alternative way is to use Microsoft Word, click on the Insert toolbar then Symbols ribbon to open the Symbol dialog box (see below).

Now to render the 233 Wingdings symbol in ODS TEXT= do the following:

ODS TEXT = "^{style[font_face=Wingdings]%sysfunc(byte(233))}" ;