Prop Charset
# ASP Charset Property
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The Charset property appends a character set name to the content-type header in the Response object. The default character set is ISO-LATIN-1.
**Note:** This property accepts any string, regardless of whether it is a valid character set name.
### Syntax
response.Charset(charsetname)
| Parameter | Description |
| --- | --- |
| charsetname | A string that specifies the character set for the page. |
### Example
If the ASP page does not set the Charset property, the content-type header will look like this:
content-type:text/html
If we use the Charset property:
The content-type header will look like this:
content-type:text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
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