What is VB character set?
Character sets are available to Visual Basic developers through the CharSet property of the StdFont object, which is defined as an automation type in stdole2.tlb (referenced in every VB project) and used by the Font property of all the VB form and control types.
What is character datatype?
The CHAR data type stores character data in a fixed-length field. Data can be a string of single-byte or multibyte letters, numbers, and other characters that are supported by the code set of your database locale. … The size of a CHAR column is byte-based, not character-based.