character set
Americannoun
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Each feature is, in effect, a double portrait: of the writer at work on the story and of a charismatic, elusive central character, set against a busy backdrop of mayhem and intrigue.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
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
"I was keen to fill out the cast with relative unknowns," says Roberts, of the Transformers character set.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2018
In 2014, Unicode proposed adding five different skin tones to the character set, allowing people to send messages that reflect how they look.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018
Often happens, for example, when using a terminal or comm program on a device like an IBM PC with a special `high-half' character set and with the bit-parity assumption wrong.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond
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