a list of selected character codes characters represented as code points) in a certain order
an ordered set of characters in which a numeric index (code point values) is associated with each character
a specification of code points for each graphic character in a set, or in a collection of graphic character sets
(1) synonym for coded character set. (2) synonym for character set encoding; i.e. In some contexts, codepage is used to refer to a specification of a character repertoire and an encoding form for representing that repertoire. (3) In some systems, a mapping between encoded characters in Unicode and a non-Unicode encoding form; e.g. Microsoft Windows codepage 1252.