a) [ISO] A member of a set of elements used for organisation control or representation of data A character can be a graphic character or a control character b) Common term for glyph used in writing languages
1) A single group of bars and spaces which represent an individual number, letter, punctuation mark, or other symbol 2) A graphic shape representing a letter, numeral, or symbol 3) A letter, digit, or other symbol that is used as part of the organization, control, or representation of data
A single location on a computer system capable of holding one alphabetic character or numeric digit One or more characters are held in a field One or more fields make up a record, and one or more records may be held in a file or database table
A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Cæsar is a great historical character
the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
(n ) A letter, numeral, punctuation mark, control character, blank, or other such symbol See also byte
approval If you say that someone has character, you mean that they have the ability to deal effectively with difficult, unpleasant, or dangerous situations. She showed real character in her attempts to win over the crowd I didn't know Ron had that much strength of character
(1) a symbol used in writing, distinguished from others by its meaning, not its specific shape; similar to grapheme It relates to the domain of orthographies and writing See orthographic character (2) specific to the implementation of computers and other information systems See also abstract character and encoded character
(1) The smallest component of written language that has semantic value; refers to the abstract meaning and/or shape, rather than a specific shape (see also glyph), though in code tables some form of visual representation is essential for the reader's understanding (2) Synonym for abstract character (See Definition D3 in Section 3 3, Characters and Coded Representations ) (3) The basic unit of encoding for the Unicode character encoding (4) The English name for the ideographic written elements of Chinese origin (See ideograph (2) )
A letter, digit or other symbol that is used as the representation of data A connected sequence of characters is called a character string
A symbol used in a writing system In most western languages the letters A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9 and punctuation characters such as : ; , ? etc