Font.GdiCharSet Property

Definition

Gets a byte value that specifies the GDI character set that this Font uses.

public:
 property System::Byte GdiCharSet { System::Byte get(); };
public byte GdiCharSet { get; }
member this.GdiCharSet : byte
Public ReadOnly Property GdiCharSet As Byte

Property Value

A byte value that specifies the GDI character set that this Font uses. The default is 1.

Remarks

This property returns 1, unless a different character set is specified in the Font(String, Single, FontStyle, GraphicsUnit, Byte) constructor. This property takes a value from the list defined in the Windows SDK header file WinGDI.h. The character sets and byte values are listed in the following table.

Character set Value
ANSI 0
DEFAULT 1
SYMBOL 2
SHIFTJIS 128
HANGEUL 129
HANGUL 129
GB2312 134
CHINESEBIG5 136
OEM 255
JOHAB 130
HEBREW 177
ARABIC 178
GREEK 161
TURKISH 162
VIETNAMESE 163
THAI 222
EASTEUROPE 238
RUSSIAN 204
MAC 77
BALTIC 186

Applies to