| Maltese | English |
| karattru bażiku | base character (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| karattru bil-wisa' | spacing character (A character with a non-zero width) |
| karattru bla wisa' | precomposed character (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| karattru bla wisa' | non-spacing character (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| karattru għas-separazzjoni ta' elementi f'lista | list-separator character (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| karattru kompost | composite character (A text element consisting of a base character and a diacritic or accent mark. Although most common in the Latin script, other scripts (including Greek, Devanagari, and Tamil) also have composite characters) |
| karattru ma jipprintjax | nonprinting character (A character used to control the format of displayed or printed information, rather than to represent a particular letter, digit, or other special character. The space () is one of the more important nonprinting characters) |
| karattru newtrali | neutral character (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| karattru qawwi | strong character (A character that is part of the set that makes up a particular language, such as vowels and consonants) |
| karattru separatur | separator character (A character you choose to indicate where you want text to separate when you convert a table to text, or where you want new rows or columns to begin when you convert text to a table) |
| karattru speċjali | special character (A character that is not found on your keyboard and must be inserted from within the software or by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard) |
| karattru ta' kontroll | control character (A character that is inserted in right-to-left and mixed text to specify the formatting of text when the inherent directionality of the text is insufficient to display expected results) |
| karattru ta' spazju | space character (A character that is entered by pressing the SPACEBAR on the keyboard and that typically appears on the screen as a blank space) |
| karattru tat-tabulazzjoni | tab character (A character used to align lines and columns on screen and in print. Although a tab is visually indistinguishable from a series of blank spaces in most programs, the tab character and the space character are different to a computer. A tab is a single character and therefore can be added, deleted, or overtyped with a single keystroke) |
| karattru werrej | leader character (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| karattru wildcard | wildcard character (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| karattru ġeneriku | pattern-matching character (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| kodiċi tal-karattru | character code (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
