Well, to me at least the term character set does not define a mapping or encoding. It just specifies a list of
charactersand their numeric representations or mappings not included.
To say "character set mapping" or "character set encoding" might be more complete. Though I tend to use the term "code
page"because that's what I've heard the most down thru the years.
If someone here wants to suggest a particular terminology to use I'd be happy to adopt it in this list.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:14:43 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>Oh, I see.
>
>Randall, why do we need to use the term then? Shouldn't we use more
>standard term "character set" or "charset" instead?