Character Set

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

A character-set is a type of that maps numbers to a set of (abstract) characters.

So, for example, a character-set might map the follow numbers to the following characters:

	┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
	┃ Number ┃ Character ┃
	┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
	│   65   │     A     │
	│   66   │     B     │
	│   67   │     C     │
	│   68   │     D     │
	│   69   │     E     │
	│   70   │     F     │
	│   71   │     G     │
	│   72   │     H     │
	│   73   │     I     │
	│   74   │     J     │
	│   75   │     K     │
	│   76   │     L     │
	│   77   │     M     │
	│   78   │     N     │
	│   79   │     O     │
	│   80   │     P     │
	│   81   │     Q     │
	│   82   │     R     │
	│   83   │     S     │
	│   84   │     T     │
	│   85   │     U     │
	│   86   │     V     │
	│   87   │     W     │
	│   88   │     X     │
	│   89   │     Y     │
	│   90   │     Z     │
	└────────┴───────────┘

So then, if there was some text that used this character-set, then 65 would be "A", 69 would be "E", and 77 would be "M". And the following numbers:

	72 69 76 76 79

Would be:

	HELLO

(Because 72 is "H", 69 is "E", 76 is "L", and 79 is "O".)

Note that the character-set does not specify what the each character should look like — a , that is part of a font, specifies what a character looks like.

Some character-sets include: