| Subject | English | Latvian |
| comp., MS | ANSI character set | ANSI rakstzīmju kopa (An 8-bit character set used by Microsoft Windows that allows you to represent up to 256 characters (0 through 255) by using your keyboard. The ASCII character set is a subset of the ANSI set) |
| comp., MS | character set | rakstzīmju kopa (A grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and other characters that have some relationship in common. For example, the standard ASCII character set includes letters, numbers, symbols, and control codes that make up the ASCII coding scheme) |
| comp., MS | multibyte character set | vairākbaitu rakstzīmju kopa (A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters) |
| comp., MS | single-byte character set | vienbaita rakstzīmju kopa (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |