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

2/27/2008

Gets or sets the character set for printing 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)

The CharacterSet property is updated by the service object, based on the capabilities of the device.

Values are as follows:

Value	Meaning
Range 101 - 199	Device-specific character sets that do not match a code page or the ASCII or Windows ANSI character sets.
Range 400 - 990	Code page; matches one of the standard values.
Unicode	The character set supports UNICODE.
Ascii	The ASCII character set, supporting the ASCII characters between 0x20 and 0x7F. The value of this constant is 998.
Windows	The Windows ANSI character set. The value of this constant is 999. This is exactly the same as the Windows code page 1252.
Range 1000 and higher	Windows code page; matches one of the standard values.

Accessing the CharacterSet property may throw a PosControlException exception with the following ErrorCodes:

Value	Meaning
Illegal	An invalid property value was used.

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