Character set

(Eng. character set)

A character set is a defined set of characters for data processing in which each character is assigned an integer.

Which integer is to represent each character in the character set and how they are to be stored physically (in binary code as zeros and ones) on a computer is defined in a code table and is termed character encoding. Examples of character sets are ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode.


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