Difference of fieldType and wFieldType

Fieldtype is a structure that contains 4 bytes of the data, it includes 2 bytes for wFieldType and the other 2 bytes are wLCID.

  • wFieldType– field logical type (one of the eVisualFieldType values)
  • wLCID– ID of language-culture to differentiate one field of the same type from another

The eVisualFieldType values are described in the corresponding section of the Programmes Guide.

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In this case, we are considering this number 269221896 as a decimal number, which is equal to hexadecimal number 100C0008
Splitting the number up into 2 parts: high and low, we get 100C and 0008 accordingly.
0008 - field ft_Surname (see the list of possible values under eVisualFieldType section of the Programmers Guide);
You can also check if this result is correct in the wFieldType field. In the given example, it also takes value 8, which indicates that this field is a surname. Also by searching for a specific value of this field in the results of the processing, you can quickly make sure that the processed document contains, for example, fields such as:
Gender - wFieldType=13
Age - wFieldType=185
Visa number - wFieldType=196 and so on (see eVisualFieldType in the programmer's guide for a list of possible values)

100C – turning this number back into decimal units, we get 4108 French – Switzerland fr-CH  (see the list of possible values here).

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