character set

n.1. See character encoding.2. The set of characters that form the basis for a particular character encoding.

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character set - an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printinglist, listing - a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)alphabet - a character set that includes letters and is used to write a languagealphanumeric characters, alphanumerics - a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation

character set

[′kar·ik·tər ‚set] (communications) A set of unique representations called characters, for example, the 26 letters of the English alphabet, the Boolean 0 and 1, the set of signals in Morse code, and the 128 characters of the USASCII.

character set

(character)1. A particular mapping between characters andbyte strings, i.e. the combination of a particularcharacter encoding (which maps between byte strings andintegers) and a particular coded character set (which mapsbetween integers and characters).

For example: ASCII (the ASCII coded character set, encodeddirectly as single-byte values), or UTF-8 (the Unicode codedcharacter set, encoded with an 8-bit transformation method).

2. Occasionally: a character repertoire; or a coded character set.

character set

A group of unique symbols used for display and printing. Character sets for languages that use the English alphabet generally contain 256 symbols, which is the number of combinations one byte can hold. Except for special fonts, such as Dingbats and Greek symbols, the symbols are the same for the first 128 characters. The letters may have different styling due to their typeface, but an "M," for example, is an "M" in the same sequential order in each character set.

The second 128 characters differ depending on the font/character set chosen. See ASCII chart for the actual characters in the PC-8 character set, which was defined for the original IBM PC. See extended ASCII, code page and Unicode.

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noun an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing

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