Other sets are for other Latin-based writing systems, as well as Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek. The Danish Unix User Group offers an archive of character maps for about 160 character sets. TEI Standard Writing System Declarations and Entities documents many character sets following the Text Encoding Initiative 's WSD Guidelines . The sorting order for all the characters in a character set . A single character which is a composite of two or more other characters.
Character encoding refers specifically to the codes used to represent characters .
Microsoft Typography Home Page explains how TrueType and OpenType fonts work. A subcomponent of an operating system which gives all programs and data files access to multiple fonts for rendering characters . A character that is not available in one of the character sets already supported on a computer system. Unicode A character set which attempts to include every character from all the major writing systems of the world.