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LineDisplay.CharacterSet Property (POS for .NET v1.12 SDK Documentation)

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2/27/2008

Gets or sets the character set for displaying characters.

Namespace: Microsoft.PointOfService
Assembly: Microsoft.PointOfService (in microsoft.pointofservice.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public MustOverride Property CharacterSet As Integer

public abstract int CharacterSet { get; set; }

public:
virtual property int CharacterSet {
    int get () abstract;
    void set (int value) abstract;
}

/** @property */
public abstract int get_CharacterSet ()

/** @property */
public abstract void set_CharacterSet (int value)

public abstract function get CharacterSet () : int

public abstract function set CharacterSet (value : int)

Remarks

CharacterSet may be one of the following ranges or values.

Value

Meaning

Range 101 - 199

A device-specific character set that does not match a code page or the ASCII or Windows ANSI character sets.

Range 400 - 990

Code page; matches one of the standard values.

CharacterSetUnicode

The character set supports Unicode. The value of this constant is 997.

CharacterSetAscii

The ASCII character set, supporting the ASCII characters between 0x20 and 0x7F. The value of this constant is 998.

CharacterSetAnsi

The Windows ANSI character set. The value of this constant is 999. This is exactly equal to the Windows code page 1252.

Range 1000 and higher

Windows code page; matches one of the standard values.

CharacterSet is typically initialized to zero (0). This value is guaranteed to support at least the set of characters specified by the CapCharacterSet property.

Accessing CharacterSet may cause a PosControlException to be thrown with the following ErrorCode.

Value

Meaning

Illegal

CharacterSet has been set to a value that does not exist in the character sets listed for the CharacterSetList property.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread-safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

See Also

Reference

LineDisplay Class
LineDisplay Members
Microsoft.PointOfService Namespace
CharacterSetList
LineDisplay.CapCharacterSet Property