Character set in C++ means, its not something different,for example in english we have alphabets like wise cpp (C++) also has only some of the characters supported by itself and since it is an high level programming language its syntax is not very hard to learn.lets see about it........

here's the set of symbols (chracters) supported in cpp

1. lower case alphabets (a-z).
2. upper case alphabets (A-Z).
3. numbers (0-9).
4. special characters (~,@,!,#,%,$,.......).