Solution for ERROR: Some character data was lost during transcoding in the dataset

When I search for the mentioned error I get the link solution provided administration oriented but developers do not have access. 

  http://support.sas.com/kb/52/716.html

Please see my solution below

proc options option=config; run;

proc options group=languagecontrol; run;

/* Show the encoding value for the problematic data set */

%let dsn=item_information_may16;

%let dsid=%sysfunc(open(&dsn,i));

%put &dsn ENCODING is: %sysfunc(attrc(&dsid,encoding));

/*Renaming item desc file  (encoding=any) allowed reading****************************/

data tmp.item_info_curr;

set hc.item_information_may16 (encoding=any);

run;

/*gave error*/

data item_info_curr;

set item_information_may16;

run;