Pretty much. The charset (e.g. Unicode) just maps numbers to characters, and the encoding (e.g. UTF-8) translates sequences of numbers to bytes (and vice versa)

Pretty much. The charset (e.g. Unicode) just maps numbers to characters, and the encoding (e.g. UTF-8) translates sequences of numbers to bytes (and vice versa). Unfortunately, there's a lot of blurred lines and loose usage of terminology due to misunderstandings and historical baggage (e.g. ambiguous usage of "charset", Microsoft's usage of "Unicode", "ASCII" used to refer to both charset and encoding, etc.) which contributes to the confusion.