With WLATIN1 encoding, characters such as greater than or equal to are not imported. They are transformed into a non-printable 1A character (hexadecimal value) to indicate that the characters were substituted.
While in SASĀ® Studio, file= can be used to specify both path and name of your output file, SASĀ® Windowing Environement needs two distinct options: path= and file=. Here is an example.