character set

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character set

noun character sets

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

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noun set of characters in a character encoding

中文字符集 zìfújí
Portuguêsconjunto de caracteres
Françaisjeu de caractères
DeutschZeichensatz
Русскийнабо́р си́мволов nabór símvolov
Tiếng Việtbảng mã, bảng mã ký tự, bảng mã kí tự, bộ mã, bộ mã ký tự, bộ mã kí tự

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@misc{character_set_2026,
  title = {character set},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/character%20set},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}