character
A character is one of a set of the symbols which can be represented by a computer. Characters can be letters, digits, spaces, punctuation marks, non-printing and control characters.
Related terms
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
ASCII
character set
EBCDIC
control character
non-printing character
digit
key
char
character data
numeric type
string data
Term sub categories
General
characters, styles, fonts
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