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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Example Sentences

Mattel got a popularity boost last year when a live-action film about the company’s iconic Barbie character set box-office records as it grossed more than $1.4 billion and became a cultural phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

And yet, in “The Vow,” he is oddly watchable, like a “Saturday Night Live” recurring character set loose in upstate New York.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 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

Also, in BBS-land, the term `ANSI' is    often used to imply that a particular computer uses or can emulate    the IBM high-half character set from MS-DOS.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.