character set
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈkɛrɪktər sɛt/
- Specialized
:
conjunto de caracteres
- You need to select the correct character set in the settings to view non-Latin text properly.
Examples
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You support UNICODE for displaying East Asian character sets, but you must provide IMEs too!
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For all your information needs about child health and development, in English, French, and Chinese (simplified character set), plus core information in Arabic, Chinese (traditional character set), Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, and Portuguese.
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That's the current location of the character set, or,
Fiction book (1992) -
Of prime importance were the holding codes, the four-character sets that identify a location or collection within an institution.
Academic text (2014) -
If you use Netscape Navigator, click on "View," then "Character set" and choose "Simplified Chinese."
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For all your information needs about child health and development, in English, French, and Chinese (simplified character set), plus core information in Arabic, Chinese (traditional character set), Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, and Portuguese.
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I work on a non-profit multilingual website with very wide character set usage, and it would be invaluable for me to be able to rank fonts based on Unicode ranges or even just the number of glyphs.
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In a recent ACM Queue article, Poul-Henning Kamp makes the fascinating point that much of the style of programming languages stems from the ASCII character set and typewriter-based terminals.
Academic text (2011) -
To read the document correctly, ensure your software supports the appropriate character set.
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When developing a website, it's essential to specify the character set in the HTML header.
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a defined collection of characters' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'character' (symbol used in writing) with 'set' (a group of related items). This simple noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows basic English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name character set comes from old printing shops where each character, a letter or symbol, was kept in a set, a small tray of metal pieces. Imagine a tray with all the letters and signs you need; that image shows why today character set means a specific 'collection' of characters a computer or font uses.