character set

English

Noun

character set (plural character sets)

1. (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.

2. (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding.

Related terms

• charset

Translations

set of characters in a character encoding

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字符集 (zh) (zìfújí)

• Danish: tegnsæt (da) n, tegntabel
• Esperanto: alfabeto (eo), signaro
• Estonian: märgistik, märgirühm
• Faroese: stavafeingi, teknfeingi, stavtalva, tekntalva
• Finnish: merkistö
• French: jeu de caractères (fr) m
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• German: Zeichensatz (de)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: karakterkészlet (hu)
• Icelandic: stafasett n, stafatafla f
• Irish: tacar carachtar m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tegnsett

  Nynorsk: teiknsett

• Portuguese: conjunto de caracteres m
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• Swedish: teckenuppsättning c
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See also

• character encoding
• repertoire
• DRCS
• UCS

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