codespace

A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.

Noun

  1. A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.
    • A codespace range is specified by a pair of codes of some particular length giving the lower and upper bounds of that range. - 2001, Adobe Systems, PDF Reference:
    • Most of the characters in common use fit into the first 64K code points, a region of the codespace that's called the basic multilingual plane (BMP). - 2008, David Salomon, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression:

    Coordinate Terms: codepage

Origin

From code + space.

Forms

codespaces