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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The set of characters that form the basis for a particular character encoding.

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  • noun computing The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
  • noun computing A set of characters together with a character encoding.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing

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