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

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

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

Since then there have been further efforts to improve the representation of people in the character set.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2018

Hence, we call a text that uses non-ASCII characters in a character set like Codepage 850 or ISO-8859-1 an "8-bit" text.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim