PosPrinter.CharacterSet Property

2/27/2008

Gets or sets the numeric value that indicates the character set that the application wants to use 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)

Remarks

The application should set CharacterSet to a value from those listed in the CharacterSetList property. (The service object sets CharacterSetList to the character sets available for mapping.)

Values are as follows:

Value	Meaning
VRange 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. The value of this constant is 997.
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 CharacterSet may cause a PosControlException to be thrown with the following ErrorCode:

Value	Meaning
Illegal	The application specified a value for CharacterSet that does not exist in the list provided by the service object (that is, in the list of values specified 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

PosPrinter Class
PosPrinter Members
Microsoft.PointOfService Namespace
CharacterSetList