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character set

American  

noun

Computers.
  1. 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.


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His genuine grasp on the emotional struggles of the character set him apart from the many actors in consideration.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2023

Many corporations make their custom fonts free to download, partly to allow international users who do work for the company to modify the character set, adding the characters they need for foreign alphabets.

From New York Times Aug. 21, 2020

We can surmise that this is likely to be a pop-culture-literate take on Dungeons & Dragons, that feeds into the game’s retro roots and perhaps even features players among its character set.

From The Guardian Aug. 1, 2019

Lee, who helped shepherd this proposal, runs the emoji advocacy group Emojination and has now helped to realize more than 100 new emoji, focusing on emoji that make the character set more inclusive.

From Slate May 2, 2019

If you need to use a different character set, you should change ISO-8859-1 to whatever you intend to use.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

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