character set

American  

noun

Computers.

1. the 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.

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Example Sentences

Mattel got a popularity boost last year when a live-action film about the company’s iconic Barbie character set box-office records as it grossed more than $1.4 billion and became a cultural phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

We can surmise that this is likely to be a pop-culture-literate take on Dungeons & Dragons, that feeds into the game’s retro roots and perhaps even features players among its character set.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2019

Lee, who helped shepherd this proposal, runs the emoji advocacy group Emojination and has now helped to realize more than 100 new emoji, focusing on emoji that make the character set more inclusive.

From Slate • May 2, 2019

"I was keen to fill out the cast with relative unknowns," says Roberts, of the Transformers character set.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2018

This file is encoded using the UTF-8 character set.

From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Becke, Louis