| English | Russian |
| accented character | символ с диакритическим знаком |
| agent character | персонаж (An interactive animated character who guides users through Windows Welcome. The character interacts with the user in ways similar to the natural aspects of human social communication. Characters can respond by using synthesized speech, recorded audio, or text in a cartoon word balloon) |
| agent character | анимированный персонаж |
| Any Character | любой знак (A menu item that allows the user to search a string based on a wildcard for a character, when the number of letters is known. Example: The search for D*O** will return all five-letter words that begin with a D and where O is the third letter) |
| ASCII character set | набор символов ASCII (A standard 7-bit code for representing ASCII characters using binary values; code values range from 0 to 127. Most PC-based systems use an 8-bit extended ASCII code, with an extra 128 characters used to represent special symbols, foreign-language characters, and graphic symbols) |
| base character | базовый символ (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| bullet character | знак маркёра (A typographical symbol, such as a filled or empty circle, diamond, box, or asterisk, used to set off a small block of text or each item in a list) |
| Caret Character | знак крышки (Word 2007 Rori) |
| carriage return character in source line | знак возврата каретки в исходной строке (ssn) |
| character code | код знака (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| character encoding | кодировка |
| character entity | сущность знака (A code that's used in HTML to describe symbols, international letters, and other special characters. Character entities are maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO)) |
| character formatting | форматирование знаков (Formatting you can apply to selected text characters) |
| Character Map | таблица символов (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character mode | текстовый режим (" A display mode in which the monitor can display letters, numbers, and other text characters but no graphical images or WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get") character formatting (italics, superscript, and so on).") |
| character pad | панель ввода знаков (The pad in Tablet PC Input Panel that you can use to write one character (such as a letter, number, or symbol) at a time. Each character is converted into typed text) |
| character set | кодировка (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 | межзнаковый интервал (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| character string | строка символов (A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computer as text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character set, such as letters, numbers, control characters, and extended ASCII characters) |
| character style | стиль знака (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| combining character | несамостоятельный знак (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| composite character | составной знак (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) |
| consist only of white-space characters | состоять только из символов пробела (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| control character | управляющий символ (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) |
| directory character | разделитель каталогов (" A character that is used to denote the directory, for instance "\" or "/" or ":". Depending on what OS you're running on e.g. c:\bin\dos\ would be a directory on your machine.") |
| double byte character set | двухбайтовая кодировка (A character set that can use more than one byte to represent a single character. A DBCS includes some characters that consist of 1 byte and some characters that consist of 2 bytes. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use DBCS; DBCS) |
| double-byte characters | двухбайтовые символы (A set of characters in which each character is represented by two bytes. Some languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, require double-byte character sets) |
| Echo typed characters locally | Отображать введенные символы на экране (Andy) |
| Enclose Characters | ограничение ширины знаков (Office System 2010 Rori) |
| Enclose Characters | вложенные знаки (Publisher 2007 Rori) |
| escape character | escape-символ (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| excess character | лишний знак (Visual Studio 2013 ssn) |
| excess characters | лишние знаки (Visual Studio 2013 ssn) |
| extended character | символ национального алфавита (Any of the 128 additional characters in the extended ASCII (8-bit) character set. These characters include those in several non-English languages, such as accent marks, and special symbols used for creating pictures) |
| extended character set | расширенная кодировка (Ding_an_sich) |
| four character code | код FOURCC (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| half-width character | полуширинный знак (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by one byte and typically has a full-width variant. Rori) |
| icon character | анимированный значок (The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome) |
| identifier type character | символ типа идентификатора (" A character that that forces a literal to assume a data type other than the one its form indicates. You do this by appending the character to the end of the literal. For example, "%" forces the Integer data type of the literal "L" in the following declaration: Dim L%.") |
| ideographic character | идеографический символ (A character in an Asian writing system that represents a concept or an idea, but not a particular word or pronunciation) |
| leader character | заполнитель (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| list-separator character | разделитель элементов списка (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| literal type character | символ типа литерала (A textual representation of a particular value of a data type. For example, 2147483647 represents a value of integer data type) |
| magnetic ink character recognition | распознавание символов, напечатанных магнитными чернилами (A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters) |
| magnetic ink character recognition | распознавание магнитных чернил (A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters) |
| magnetic ink character recognition line | MICR-строка (A line of characters that is encoded with a special type of ink that can be magnetized and then translated into characters. MICR lines are used on bank checks to identify the bank, account, and check) |
| multibyte character set | многобайтовая кодировка (MBCS) |
| multibyte character set | многобайтовая таблица символов |
| multibyte character set | многобайтовая кодировка (A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters) |
| neutral character | нейтральный знак (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| new-line character | символ перевода строки (Ding_an_sich) |
| non-alphanumeric character | специальный символ (Andy) |
| non-printable character | непечатаемый символ (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) |
| nonprinting character | непечатаемый символ (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 | несамостоятельный знак |
| null character | нуль-символ (" A character code with a null value; literally, a character meaning "nothing." Although it is real in the sense of being recognizable, occupying space internally in the computer, and being sent or received as a character, a NUL character displays nothing, takes no space on the screen or on paper, and causes no specific action when sent to a printer. In ASCII, NUL is represented by the character code 0. ") |
| opening quote character | открывающая кавычка (SQL Server 2008 ssn) |
| optical character recognition | OCR, распознавание текста (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| optical character recognition line | OCR-строка (A line of characters that is read by special character recognition equipment and translated into computer text) |
| ordinary character | обычный символ (In regular expressions, any valid character that does not have a special meaning in the current regular expression grammar) |
| pattern-matching character | подстановочный знак (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| precomposed character | составной знак |
| prefix characters | символы префикса (A set of 1 to 4 bytes that prefix each data field in a native-format bulk-copy data file) |
| raw string literal delimiter character | символ-разделитель необработанного строкового литерала (Visual Studio 2013 ssn) |
| reserved character | зарезервированный знак (A keyboard character that has a special meaning to a program and, as a result, normally cannot be used in assigning names to files, documents, and other user-generated tools, such as macros. Characters commonly reserved for special uses include the asterisk (*), forward slash (/), backslash (\), question mark (?), and vertical bar (|)) |
| separator character | знак разделения (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) |
| separator characters | знаки разделения |
| single-byte character set | однобайтовая кодировка (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| single-byte character set | однобайтовая таблица символов |
| space character | пробел (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 | знак ненулевой ширины |
| special character | специальный знак (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) |
| the Contact Name contains one or more invalid characters | Имя контакта содержит один или несколько недопустимых знаков. (Office System 2010) |
| the distribution database name cannot contain the following characters | Имя базы данных распространителя не может содержать следующие символы: (SQL Server 2012) |
| the Domain name cannot consist solely of spaces or tab characters | Имя домена не может состоять только из пробелов и символов табуляции (Windows Server 2003 SP1) |
| Unicode character | символ Юникода (Andy) |
| Universal Character Set | кодировка UCS (An international standard character set reference that is part of the Unicode standard. The most widely held existing version of the UCS standard is UCS-2, which specifies 16-bit character values currently accepted and recognized for use to encode most of the world's languages) |
| Universal Character Set | кодировка UCS |
| unsafe character | небезопасный символ (A character in a URL that may be altered during transport across the Internet) |
| unsupported raw string literal delimiter character | неподдерживаемый символ-разделитель необработанного строкового литерала (Visual Studio 2013 ssn) |
| white-space character | пробел (" Any characters that can be found between words – this includes space (" "), newline (carriage return in combination with line feed), and the tab character.") |
| wide character | расширенный символ (A 2-byte multilingual character code) |
| wide character string literal | строковый литерал с расширенными символами (Visual Studio 2013 ssn) |
| wide character string literal | строковый литерал с двухбайтовыми символами (Visual Studio 2012 ssn) |
| wildcard character | подстановочный знак (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
