ASP.NET in a Nutshell

Name

Charset

Synopsis

String = Response.Charset
Response.Charset = String

Returns or sets a string representing the character set of the current response. When explicitly set, the value assigned to the Charset property is added to the HTTP Content-Type response header.

Parameters

String

A string variable to receive or set the value of the property. The default is utf-8.

Example

The example below sets the character set for the HTTP response to Windows-1255 (note that as the name suggests, this character set is only available on Internet Explorer on Windows clients and may cause other browsers or browsers on other operating systems to display the page incorrectly). It then writes the value of the character set to the Text property of the Message label control. To see the difference between this character set and the default utf-8 character set, load the page into Internet Explorer, and comment out the line that sets the Charset property, save the page, and reload it in the browser.

Sub Page_Load(  )
   Response.Charset = "Windows-1255"
   Message.Text = "Current character set is " & Response.Charset
End Sub

Notes

Attempting to modify this property after the HTTP headers are sent to the browser results in an HttpException being thrown. This would most likely occur if you disabled output buffering by using the BufferOutput property and then wrote content to the browser by using Response.Write.

If the character set specified by the Charset property is not valid for the browser used by the client, ...