<P> Historically , the term character has been widely used by industry professionals to refer to an encoded character , often as defined by the programming language or API . Likewise , character set has been widely used to refer to a specific repertoire of characters that have been mapped to specific bit sequences or numerical codes . The term glyph is used to describe a particular visual appearance of a character . Many computer fonts consist of glyphs that are indexed by the numerical code of the corresponding character . </P>
<P> Historically , the term character has been widely used by industry professionals to refer to an encoded character , often as defined by the programming language or API . Likewise , character set has been widely used to refer to a specific repertoire of characters that have been mapped to specific bit sequences or numerical codes . The term glyph is used to describe a particular visual appearance of a character . Many computer fonts consist of glyphs that are indexed by the numerical code of the corresponding character . </P>
the combination of numbers and characters stored in the computer is called
the combination of numbers and characters stored in the computer is called
character set
character set