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

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

Text is only legible if it’s blown up fairly large, and even then, you aren’t going to be reading anything in complicated fonts or a language with an unfamiliar character set.

From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2017

No one will wonder that such a character, set in a conspicuous place, and joined to extraordinary activity and zeal, should have produced an immense effect on the people of his city and diocese.

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount