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Essential definitions
Character sets, coded character sets, and encodings
Coded character set
Character set
The set of characters you will use for a particular
purpose.
Set of characters for which a unique number has been
assigned to each character.
Character encoding
The way these abstract characters are mapped to bytes
for manipulation in a computer.
Code point
Unit of a coded character set.
Character sets, coded character sets, and encodings