WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
char′acter set′, [Computers.]
  1. Computingthe numbers, letters, punctuation marks, and special symbols that can be used by a particular device, as a printer, or in a coding method, as ASCII.

'character set' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Unicode - alphanumeric - superior

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