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HttpCapabilitiesBase.RequiresDBCSCharacter Property
Visual Studio 2008
Gets a value indicating whether the browser requires a double-byte character set.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
'Declaration Public Overridable ReadOnly Property RequiresDBCSCharacter As Boolean 'Usage Dim instance As HttpCapabilitiesBase Dim value As Boolean value = instance.RequiresDBCSCharacter
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue if the browser requires a double-byte character set; otherwise, false. The default is false.
The following code example shows how to determine whether the browser requires a double-byte character set.
<%@ page language="VB" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <script runat="server"> Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) CheckBrowserCaps() End Sub Function CheckBrowserCaps() Dim labelText As String = "" Dim myBrowserCaps As System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities = Request.Browser If (CType(myBrowserCaps, System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)).RequiresDBCSCharacter Then labelText = "Browser supports RequiresDBCSCharacter." Else labelText = "Browser does not support RequiresDBCSCharacter." End If Label1.Text = labelText End Function 'CheckBrowserCaps </script> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <title>Browser Capabilities Sample</title> </head> <body> <form runat="server" id="form1"> <div> Browser Capabilities: <p/><asp:Label ID="Label1" Runat="server" /> </div> </form> </body> </html>
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