character set
The set of symbols that may be represented by a computer at a particular time. These symbols are called characters and can be letters, digits, spaces, punctuation marks, and include non-printing, control characters.
Related terms
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
ASCII
EBCDIC
character
control character
non-printing character
char
character data
Term sub categories
Data representation
character sets
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- a -
- b -
- c -
- d -
- e -
- f -
- g -
- h -
- i -
- j -
- k -
- l -
- m -
- n -
- o -
- p -
- q -
- r -
- s -
- t -
- u -
- v -
- w -
- x -
- y -
- z -
- symbols