character set

Available typing symbols

A character set is the collection of letters, numbers, symbols, and other characters that a system can represent.

In computing, character sets define which characters are available and how they're encoded as data.

ASCII is a basic character set; Unicode is comprehensive.

The software couldn't display the text because it used an incompatible character set.

typography

glyphs

Carved symbolic figures

symbols · diacritics · ligatures · punctuation · numerals · letters · uppercase · lowercase · whitespace · letterforms

computing

encoding

Converting data to format

newline · carriage return · locale

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Opposites
completeness/scope

character setempty set

Collection with no elements

character

abstraction level

character setfont

Character style set

typeface · font family · visual display

text vs. non-text data

character setbinary data

Information as ones and zeros

bitstream

Family

character, characters, characterize, characterization, characterized, characterless, characterizing, uncharacteristic, characteristically

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