"character set" meaning in English

See character set in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: character sets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} character set (plural character sets)
  1. (computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-character_set-en-noun-s7Iey7uW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-character_set-en-noun-nsVVrghx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: charset, character encoding, repertoire, DRCS, UCS Translations (set of characters in a character encoding): 字符集 (zìfújí) (Chinese Mandarin), tegnsæt [neuter] (Danish), tegntabel (Danish), alfabeto (Esperanto), signaro (Esperanto), märgistik (Estonian), märgirühm (Estonian), stavafeingi (Faroese), teknfeingi (Faroese), stavtalva (Faroese), tekntalva (Faroese), merkistö (Finnish), jeu de caractères [masculine] (French), Zeichensatz (German), karakterkészlet (Hungarian), stafasett [neuter] (Icelandic), stafatafla [feminine] (Icelandic), tacar carachtar [masculine] (Irish), tegnsett (Norwegian Bokmål), teiknsett (Norwegian Nynorsk), conjunto de caracteres [masculine] (Portuguese), teckenuppsättning [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'set of characters in a character encoding': 51 49

Inflected forms

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      "word": "merkistö"
    },
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      "word": "Zeichensatz"
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      "sense": "set of characters in a character encoding",
      "word": "karakterkészlet"
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      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "set of characters in a character encoding",
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      "code": "pt",
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