| English | Konkani |
| base character | मूळ वर्ण (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| character code | वर्ण कोड (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| character map | वर्ण नकसो (In text-based computer graphics, a block of memory addresses that correspond to character spaces on a display screen. The memory allocated to each character space is used to hold the description of the character to be displayed in that space) |
| Character Map | वर्ण नकसो (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character set | वर्ण संच (A grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and other characters that have some relationship in common. For example, the standard ASCII character set includes letters, numbers, symbols, and control codes that make up the ASCII coding scheme) |
| character spacing | वर्ण अंतर (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| character style | वर्ण शैली (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| combining character | एकठांवपी वर्ण (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| composite character | जुळोवपी वर्ण (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) |
| control character | नियंत्रण वर्ण (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) |
| leader character | अग्रणी वर्ण (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| list-separator character | सुची-विभाजक वर्ण (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| neutral character | तटस्थ वर्ण (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| nonprinting character | अम्रुदणीय वर्ण (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) |
| non-spacing character | अंतर नाशिल्लो वर्ण (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| optical character recognition | नदरेप्रमाण वर्ण वळखप (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| pattern-matching character | नमुन्याक जुळपी वर्ण (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| precomposed character | आदींच घडयल्लो वर्ण (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| separator character | विभाजक वर्ण (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) |
| space character | सुवात वर्ण (A character that is entered by pressing the SPACEBAR on the keyboard and that typically appears on the screen as a blank space) |
| spacing character | अंतर दवरपी वर्ण (A character with a non-zero width) |
| special character | खास वर्ण (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) |
| strong character | बळिश्ट वर्ण (A character that is part of the set that makes up a particular language, such as vowels and consonants) |
| tab character | टॅब वर्ण (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) |
| wildcard character | वायल्डकार्ड वर्ण (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
