PROPERTY:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DESCRIPTION:

 

 

Indicates the character set into which the contents of text stream are to be translated.

 

 

 

 

PROPERTY OF:

 

 

ADOStream

 

 

 

 

DEFAULT VALUE:

 

 

Unicode

 

 

 

 

 

DESCRIPTION:

 

 

Sets or returns a String value that specifies the character set into which the contents of the Stream will be translated.

 

Allowed values are typical strings passed over the interface as Internet character set names (for example, "iso-8859-1", "Windows-1252", and so on).

 

For a list of the character set names that are known by a system, see the subkeys of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Charset in the Windows Registry.

 

 

 

In a text stream object, text data is stored in the character set specified by the charSet property.

 

This 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, the stream object will convert the data to Unicode. The reverse is also true.

 

 

 

 

If you set this property when stream object is open, the current position will be moved at the beginning of the stream (0).