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Character (computing)

In computing and telecommunications, a character is the encoded representation of a natural language character (including letter, numeral and punctuation), whitespace (space or tab), or a control character (controls computer hardware that consumes character-based data). A sequence of characters is called a string.

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Character (computing)

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples7
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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Important terminology

character code unicode characters byte bits utf-8 used point encoding number uses set letter information representation data use combining char

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
the six-bit character codeinstance ofVarious fixed-length sizes were used for now obsolete systems0.80text
the five-bit Baudot codeinstance ofVarious fixed-length sizes were used for now obsolete systems0.80text
even 4-bit systemsinstance ofVarious fixed-length sizes were used for now obsolete systems0.80text
ANSI or Unicode.Character setA character set identifies a repertoire of characters that are each mapped to a unique numeric value.GlyphGlyph describes a particular visual appearance of a characterinstance ofoften as defined by a standard0.80text
ANSI or Unicodeinstance ofoften as defined by a standard0.80text
UTF-8 are usedinstance ofbeing used interchangeably and this leads to confusion today when multibyte encodings0.80text
defining an array ofcharas a character arrayinstance ofHowever it still contains errors0.80text

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