character set
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[edit]Noun
[edit]character set (plural character sets)
- (computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
- 1995 May 2, Dan Connolly, “Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft”, in HTML Working Group[1]:
- 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.
- (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding.
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[edit]set of characters in a character encoding
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