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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

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)ASCIIcharacter setEBCDICcontrol characternon-printing characterdigitkeycharcharacter datanumeric typestring data
Term sub categories
General › characters, styles, fonts
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