Font.GdiCharSet Property
Gets a byte value that specifies the GDI character set that this Font uses.
Namespace: System.Drawing
Assembly: System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)
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 |
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
