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character sets

character sets is the plural of character set.

Meaning of character set

Noun

character set (plural character sets)

  1. The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
    • In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters.1995 May 2, Dan Connolly, “Character Set Considered Harmful, Internet Draft”, in HTML Working Group
  2. A set of characters together with a character encoding.

Questions about character sets

What is character sets the plural of?
Character sets is the plural of character set.

Words near character sets in the dictionary

  1. character piece
  2. character pieces
  3. character reference
  4. character references
  5. character set
  6. character sets
  7. character shoe
  8. character shoes
  9. character state
  10. character studies
  11. character study

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Adapted from Wiktionary: character sets (page history and authors); character set (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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