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)