Character

A character is either a symbol (letter, number, punctuation) or a non-printing "control" (e.g., carriage return or soft hyphen). {{glossary("Unicode")}} is the most common character set and includes the graphemes of the most popular human languages.

See also

• Character (computing) on Wikipedia
• Character encoding on Wikipedia
• Related glossary terms:
  • {{glossary("ASCII")}}
• UTF-8 on Wikipedia
• Unicode on Wikipedia