The sequence, or order, of the character set built into a computer. See ASCII chart and EBCDIC chart. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

The following character informats and formats produce different results in different operating environments, depending on which character-encoding system the operating system uses. Because UNIX uses ...

In the SAS System under OS/2, character values are sorted using the ASCII collating sequence. As an alternative to the numeric dummy variables discussed previously, you can choose a character variable ...