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 by ChangeCharset
charsetDefault Default character set defined for the current computer. No character set is forced.
charsetEastEurope Characters of Eastern Europe (Polish...)
charsetGreek Greek characters
charsetHebrew Hebrew characters
charsetJapanese Japanese characters
Versions 20 and later
charsetMac
New in version 20
charsetMac
charsetMac Characters to the Mac Roman standard (used on the old Macintosh versions).
charsetOccidental Roman characters in ANSI standard
charsetRussian Russian characters
charsetThai Thai characters
charsetTurkish Turkish characters
charsetVietnamese Vietnamese characters

<Control used>: Control name

Name of control to use.

Modifying the character set used in a control Hide the details

<Control used>..FontCharset = <New charset>

<Control used>: Control name

Name of control to use.

<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 by ChangeCharset
charsetDefault Default character set defined for the current computer. No character set is forced.
charsetEastEurope Characters of Eastern Europe (Polish...)
charsetGreek Greek characters
charsetHebrew Hebrew characters
charsetJapanese Japanese characters
Versions 20 and later
charsetMac
New in version 20
charsetMac
charsetMac Characters to the Mac Roman standard (used on the old Macintosh versions).
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 the fonts in a single operation, use ChangeCharset.

Limits

In a report, ..FontCharset does not apply to the:

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

In a window, ..FontCharset does not apply to the:

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

..FontCharset is not available for the Table controls and for the table columns.

..FontCharset is not available for the table columns.