"character set" meaning in English

See character set in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: character sets [plural]
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  2. (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding. Categories (topical): Computing
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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': 50 50

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