Character Sets

Definition

• Character
  ECMA 35 : "A member of a set of elements used for the organisation, control or represenation of data".
  Unicode consortium : "The smalles component of written language that has semantic values; refers to the abstract meaning and/or shape, rather than a specific shape (see also glyph)".
  W3C : "An atom of information".
• Coded Character Set
  ECMA 35 : "A set of unambiguous rules that establishes a character set and the one-to-one relationship between the characters of the set and their bit combinations".
  Chinese : 編碼字符集 (biānmǎ zìfújí)
• Character Repertoire
  ECMA 35 : "A specified set of characters that are represented by means of one or more bit combinations of a coded character set".
  Chinese : 字彙 (zìhuì)
• Character Encoding Scheme
• Charset
• Glyph
  Unicode Consortium : "An abstract from that represents one or more glyph images", an glyph image is "The actual, concrete image of a glyph representation having been rasterized or otherwise imaged onto some display surface".
  ISO 9541-1 : "A recognizable abstract grpahic symbol which is independent of a specific design".