As I can see, the standard document uses the terms "character set" and
"encoding" interchangeably.

Am I right thinking that the two terms bear the same meaning, or are
there any ramifications to all this?

Thank you

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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:34:32 GMT, Kiril Avdeiv <kavdeiv@mail.ru> wrote:
>  As I can see, the standard document uses the terms "character set" and
>  "encoding" interchangeably.
>
>  Am I right thinking that the two terms bear the same meaning, or are
>  there any ramifications to all this?

I don't know whether they are meant to have the same meaning in the
standard (I don't have my copy at hand), but generally those terms do
_not_ have the same meaning. "Character set" usually denotes a set of
characters (usually along with a distinct, identifying integer number
for each contained character), and "encoding" denotes some way to
represent a sequence of those characters as a sequence of bytes (or
words, or similar).

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