CharSet Property

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Identifies the character set of the data file.

Syntax

dataobj.CharSet = sValue

sValue

String expression that describes the character set used for the data file. If no value is supplied, the input file is interpreted using codepage 1252 (Western Alphabet).

Possible Values

DIN_66003	20106	IA5 (German)
NS_4551-1	20108	IA5 (Norwegian)
SEN_850200_B	20107	IA5 (Swedish)
_autodetect	50932	Japanese (Auto Select)
_autodetect_kr	50949	Korean (Auto Select)
big5	950	Chinese Traditional (Big5)
csISO2022JP	50221	Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
euc-kr	51949	Korean (EUC)
gb2312	936	Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
hz-gb-2312	52936	Chinese Simplified (HZ)
ibm852	852	Central European (DOS)
ibm866	866	Cyrillic Alphabet (DOS)
irv	20105	IA5 (IRV)
iso-2022-jp	50220	Japanese (JIS)
iso-2022-jp	50222	Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana)
iso-2022-kr	50225	Korean (ISO)
iso-8859-1	1252	Western Alphabet
iso-8859-1	28591	Western Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-2	28592	Central European Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-3	28593	Latin 3 Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-4	28594	Baltic Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-5	28595	Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-6	28596	Arabic Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-7	28597	Greek Alphabet (ISO)
iso-8859-8	28598	Hebrew Alphabet (ISO)
koi8-r	20866	Cyrillic Alphabet (KOI8-R)
ks_c_5601	949	Korean
shift-jis	932	Japanese (Shift-JIS)
unicode	1200	Universal Alphabet
unicodeFEFF	1201	Universal Alphabet (Big-Endian)
utf-7	65000	Universal Alphabet (UTF-7)
utf-8	65001	Universal Alphabet (UTF-8)
windows-1250	1250	Central European Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1251	1251	Cyrillic Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1253	1253	Greek Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1254	1254	Turkish Alphabet
windows-1255	1255	Hebrew Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1256	1256	Arabic Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1257	1257	Baltic Alphabet (Windows)
windows-1258	1258	Vietnamese Alphabet (Windows)
windows-874	874	Thai (Windows)
x-euc	51932	Japanese (EUC)
x-user-defined	50000	User Defined

Remarks

In normal use, the CharSet property is set in the Web page (or is left at its default value) and never referenced again. Although you can set the property when the data has been loaded, this will not change the interpretation of the data. The only exception to this is if the DataURL property is set to a new value that forces all properties to be reevaluated.