Re: How to pronounce "charset"?

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15 UTC

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On 2013-05-13 17:49, Yoav Nir wrote:
> Wait, charset is not character set?  UTF-8 is not a set of characters?

RFC 6365 defines "Coded Character Set" and "charset", and no, they are 
not the same.

> But I agree with Tim, that I've heard more tshar-set than car-set

Same here :-)

Best regards, Julian