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Re: How to pronounce "charset"?

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> Tue, 14 May 2013 13:32 UTC

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>>>>> "YN" == Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com> writes:

YN> Wait, charset is not character set?  UTF-8 is not a set of characters?
YN> But I agree with Tim, that I've heard more tshar-set than car-set

Weird.  I've never used or heard anything but the first syllable of
character and the single syllable of set.

Appropriate, of course, since charset is a contraction of character set.

-JimC
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