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character set

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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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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

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

In 2014, Unicode proposed adding five different skin tones to the character set, allowing people to send messages that reflect how they look.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2018

The text is using some character set that your editor or viewer isn't.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim