coded character set
coded character set
[′kōd·əd ′kar·ik·tər ‚set]coded character set
(character, standard)There are several standard coded character sets, the mostwidely used is ASCII, generally in its Latin-1 dialect,with Unicode becoming slowly more common; while EBCDIC andBaudot are extinct except in legacy systems.
A coded character set may include letters, digits,punctuation, control codes, various mathematical andtypographic symbols, and other characters. Each character inthe set is represented by a unique character code (or "code position").