1. A particular mapping Between characters and Byte strings, i.e. the comBination of a particular character encoding (which maps Between Byte strings and integers) and a particular coded character set (which maps Between integers and characters). For example: ASCII (the ASCII coded character set, encoded directly as single-Byte values), or UTF-8 (the Unicode coded character set, encoded with an 8-Bit transformation method). 2. Occasionally: a character repertoire or a {coded character set}. (1998-12-17)