FontCharset (Property)

Type of character set used by the specified control:
charsetAnsi Roman characters in ANSI standard
charsetArabic Arabic characters
charsetBaltic Baltic characters
charsetChinese Chinese characters (People's Republic of China)
charsetTraditionalChinese Traditional Chinese characters (Republic of Taiwan)
charsetKorean Korean characters
charsetCurrent Uses the current character set specified with ChangeCharset
charsetDefault Default character set of the current computer. No character set is forced.
charsetEastEurope Eastern European character sets (Polish, etc.)
charsetGreek Greek characters
charsetHebrew Hebrew characters
charsetJapanese Japanese characters
charsetMac Mac Roman character set (used in previous versions of Macintosh).
charsetOccidental Roman characters in ANSI standard
charsetRussian Russian characters
charsetThai Thai characters
charsetTurkish Turkish characters
charsetVietnamese Vietnamese characters

<Control used>: Control name

Name of the control to be used.

Modifying the character set used in a control Hide the details

<Control used>.FontCharset = <New charset>

<Control used>: Control name

Name of the control to be used.

<New charset>: Integer constant

Type of character set that will be used in the specified control:
charsetAnsi Roman characters in ANSI standard
charsetArabic Arabic characters
charsetBaltic Baltic characters
charsetChinese Chinese characters (People's Republic of China)
charsetTraditionalChinese Traditional Chinese characters (Republic of Taiwan)
charsetKorean Korean characters
charsetCurrent Uses the current character set specified with ChangeCharset
charsetDefault Default character set of the current computer. No character set is forced.
charsetEastEurope Eastern European character sets (Polish, etc.)
charsetGreek Greek characters
charsetHebrew Hebrew characters
charsetJapanese Japanese characters
charsetMac Mac Roman character set (used in previous versions of Macintosh).
charsetOccidental Roman characters in ANSI standard
charsetRussian Russian characters
charsetThai Thai characters
charsetTurkish Turkish characters
charsetVietnamese Vietnamese characters

Remarks

Changing the character set

When changing the character set, the fonts that use the requested character set must be installed on the current computer.

Remark: To change the character set for all fonts in a single operation, use ChangeCharset.

Limits

For a report, the FontCharset property does not apply to:

Reports or blocks
Image controls
Bar Code controls
RTF controls
Chart controls
Shape controls
Internal Report controls
Check Box controls

For a window, the FontCharset property does not apply to:

Progress Bar controls,
Spin controls,
Scrollbar controls,
Toolbars,
Splitter controls,
Columns of a Table control,
Web Camera controls,
Conference controls,
Word Processing controls.

The FontCharset property is not available on Table controls or table columns.

The FontCharset property is not available on table columns.