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Re: How to pronounce "charset"?

Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> Mon, 13 May 2013 20:38 UTC

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From: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
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I've also heard more 'tshar-set' than 'care-set' or 'car-set' when
'character-set' is abbreviated as 'char-set'.

On the other hand the non-abbreviated form 'character-set' I've always
heard pronounced as 'care-acter-set'


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote:

> 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
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>
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