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char·ac·ter set
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Princeton's WordNet
character setnoun
an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing
Wiktionary
character setnoun
The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
character setnoun
A set of characters together with a character encoding.
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character set
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values that make up a character encoding are known as "code points" and collectively comprise a "code space", a "code page", or a "character map". Early character codes associated with the optical or electrical telegraph could only represent a subset of the characters used in written languages, sometimes restricted to upper case letters, numerals and some punctuation only. The low cost of digital representation of data in modern computer systems allows more elaborate character codes (such as Unicode) which represent most of the characters used in many written languages. Character encoding using internationally accepted standards permits worldwide interchange of text in electronic form.
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character set
A character set, also known as a character repertoire, is a defined list of characters recognized by a computer's system or software where each character is associated with a unique number. These characters can include letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks and control characters, and can also include other symbols such as special, non-printing ones. This set can be used to display or store text data in different languages and technical fields. Examples of character sets include ASCII, Unicode, and ISO-8859.
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Character Set
A defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software. Each character is represented by a number.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of character set in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of character set in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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