An encoding with a uniform, state-independent mapping from characters to codepoints A coded character set For display in X, there can be a direct mapping from a charset to one font, if the width of all characters in the charset is either one or two bytes A text string encoded in an encoding such as Shift-JIS cannot be passed directly to the X server, because the text imaging requests accept only single-width charsets (either 8 or 16 bits) Charsets which meet these restrictions can serve as "font charsets" Font charsets strictly speaking map font indices to font glyphs, not characters to character glyphs Note that a single font charset is sometimes used as the encoding of a locale, for example, ISO8859-1
short for character set; the set of characters and symbols that a web page uses Most operating systems use the same charset, but foreign countries, especially those with non-Roman alphabets, sometimes do not
{i} (short for: ) character set, group of characters that a particular computer can use
an identifier used to specify a set of characters Used particularly in Microsoft Windows and TrueType fonts, and in HTML and other Internet or Web protocols to refer to identifiers for particular subsets of the Universal Character Set