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Character encoding

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character setnoun(computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
charsetnoun(computing) A character set.
characternoun(countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
code pointnoun(computing, especially Unicode) A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.
charizingnoun(programming) Conversion to, or treatment as, a char (text character).
unicodenoun(international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
encodingnounA conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
combining formnoun(grammar) A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.
charnoun(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
codesetnounA set of pairs of text characters and associated coded forms.
codepointnounAlternative spelling of code point. [(computing, especially Unicode) A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.]
base characternoun(computing) A character whose appearance is modified by one or more combining characters.
ciphernounA method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
escape characternoun(computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.
extended asciinoun(computing) Any of various 8-bit character sets that are supersets of ASCII.
caret notationnoun(computing) A notation where each control character is represented by a caret followed by a letter or symbol.
character classnoun(regular expressions) A set of related text characters, such as all alphanumerics or all whitespace.
notationnoun(uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
windows-1252noun(computing) A single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.
asa characternoun(computing) A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer

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