Charset property (ADO)

Applies to: Access 2013, Office 2013

Indicates the character set into which the contents of a text Stream should be translated for storage in the Stream objects internal buffer.

Settings and return values

Sets or returns a String value that specifies the character set into which the contents of the Stream will be translated. The default value is "Unicode". Allowed values are typical strings passed over the interface as Internet character set strings (for example, "iso-8859-1", "Windows-1252", etc.). For a list of the character set strings that is known by a system, see the subkeys of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Charset in the Windows Registry.

Remarks

In a text Stream object, text data is stored in the character set specified by the Charset property. The default is Unicode. The Charset property is used for converting data going into the Stream or coming out of the Stream. For example, if the Stream contains ISO-8859-1 data and that data is copied to a BSTR, the Stream object will convert the data to Unicode. The reverse is also true.

For an open Stream, the current Position must be at the beginning of the Stream (0) to be able to set Charset.

Charset is used only with text Stream objects (Type is adTypeText). This property is ignored if Type is adTypeBinary.