character set

English

Noun

character set (plural character sets)

(computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
(computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding.

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

Related terms

Translations

set of characters in a character encoding

Chinese: 字符集 (zìfújí)
Estonian: märgistik, märgirühm
Finnish: merkistö
French: jeu de caractères (fr) m

German: Zeichensatz (de)
Hungarian: karakterkészlet (hu)
Irish: tacar carachtar m
Portuguese: conjunto de caracteres m

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