What does "character set" mean?

The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.

Character set

Q: What is a synonym for "character set"?

Common synonyms include: alphabet, alphabets, asciis, character repertoire, character-encoding based, character-set aware.

noun

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Definitions

Noun

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
an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing wordnet
3
A set of characters together with a character encoding.

Synonyms

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alphabet alphabets asciis character repertoire character-encoding based character-set aware

Antonyms

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charset unaware charset-agnostic empty set encoding unaware

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"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."

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