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title: "Charset Enumeration"
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product: "Graphics Mill 5.5 for .NET"
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# Charset Enumeration
 
Contains values specifying charsets.
 
**Namespace:** [Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/N_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing.htm.md)
 **Assembly:** Aurigma.GraphicsMill (in Aurigma.GraphicsMill.dll)
 
## Syntax
  
```
Public Enumeration Charset
```
 
```csharp
public enum Charset
```
 
## Members

|   |  Member name |  Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
 |   |  EastEurope |  East Europe charset. |
 |   |  Russian |  CharsetRussianCyrillic charset. Used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and some other slavic countries. Cyrillic charset. Used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and some other slavic countries. |
 |   |  Thai |  Thai charset. |
 |   |  Baltic |  Baltic charset. |
 |   |  Arabic |  Arabic charset. |
 |   |  Hebrew |  Hebrew charset. |
 |   |  Vietnamese |  Vietnamese charset. |
 |   |  Turkish |  Turkish charset. |
 |   |  Greek |  Greek charset. |
 |   |  ChineseBig5 |  Chinese BIG5 charset. Used in Taiwan (Traditional Chinese characters). |
 |   |  Gb2312 |  GB2312 charset. Used in mainland China (Simplified Chinese characters). |
 |   |  Johab |  Johab charset. Used in Korea (Johab). |
 |   |  Hangul |  Hangul charset. Used in Korea (Wansung). |
 |   |  ShiftJis |  Shift-JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) charset. Used in Japan. |
 |   |  Oem |  OEM charset. Depends on the codepage of the operating system. The same charset is used by MS-DOS. |
 |   |  Symbol |  Standard symbol charset. Used to display such fonts as Symbol or Wingdings. |
 |   |  Ansi |  ANSI charset. Used in the United States and Western Europe. |
 |   |  Default |  Default charset. Actual charset is taken from system settings. |
 |   |  Mac |  Macintosh charset. |
 
## Remarks
 As usual you should use default charset (which uses charset used in system), but if you have problems with internationalization of your application, you may need to use specific charsets.
   
## See Also

### Reference

- [Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing Namespace](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/N_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing.htm.md)
