ALL meanings of character set
char·ac·ter set
C c - noun character set a set of characters to display on a computer screen or be printed out that are all of the same design 3
- noun Definition of character set in Technology (character) 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). The character repertoire is the complete set of all characters in the character set. 1
- noun character set the numbers, letters, punctuation marks, and special symbols that can be used by a particular device, as a printer, or in a coding method, as ASCII. 1
- noun character set (computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding. 0
- noun character set (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding. 0