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character set

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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

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

The site gives in particular a definition of protocols used for internationalization/localization: HTML; base character set; new tags and attributes; HTTP; language negotiation; URLs & other identifiers including non-ASCII characters; etc.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

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