Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, or symbol, in the written form of a natural language.

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Computer - Telecommunication - Information - Grapheme - Written - Natural language

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An example of a character is a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark. The concept also includes control characters, which do not correspond to natural language symbols but to other bits of information used to process texts of the language, such as instructions to printers or other devices that display such texts.

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Numeral - Punctuation - Control character - Natural language - Printer

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