Complete Definition of "character set"

English

Noun
character set

  1. computing The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
  2. computing A set of characters together with a character encoding.

Related terms
character encoding

Translations

Chinese: �符� (zìfújí)
Finnish: merkistö
Estonian: märgistik
mid
Portuguese: conjunto de caracteres m

Quotations
"In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters." - D. Connolly, Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft

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