Talk:character set
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Lexicographically, "character set" and "character encoding" are often used interchangeably.
Strictly speaking, a character set is the domain of a character encoding (if you see the encoding as taking characters to numbers, the range if you see it the other way around).
Hmm ... sounds like two senses ... -dmh 19:07, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)