character set

2 definitions found

character set - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  character set
      n 1: an ordered list of characters that are used together in
           writing or printing

character set - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  character set
  
     <character> 1. A particular mapping between characters and
     byte strings, i.e. the combination of a particular
     character encoding (which maps between byte strings and
     integers) and a particular coded character set (which maps
     between integers and characters).
  
     For example: ASCII (the ASCII coded character set, encoded
     directly as single-byte values), or UTF-8 (the Unicode coded
     character set, encoded with an 8-bit transformation method).
  
     2. Occasionally: a character repertoire; or a coded character set
     .
  
     (1998-12-17)