| English | Maltese |
| base character | karattru bażiku (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| character code | kodiċi tal-karattru (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| character map | mappa tal-karattri (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 | Mappa tal-Karattri (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character set | sett ta' karattri (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 | spazjar tal-karattri (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| character style | stil tal-karattri (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| composite character | karattru kompost (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 | karattru ta' kontroll (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 | karattru werrej (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| list-separator character | karattru għas-separazzjoni ta' elementi f'lista (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| neutral character | karattru newtrali (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| nonprinting character | karattru ma jipprintjax (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 | karattru bla wisa' (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| optical character recognition | għarfien ottiku tal-karattri (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| pattern-matching character | karattru ġeneriku (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| precomposed character | karattru bla wisa' (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| separator character | karattru separatur (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 | karattru ta' spazju (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 | karattru bil-wisa' (A character with a non-zero width) |
| special character | karattru speċjali (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 | karattru qawwi (A character that is part of the set that makes up a particular language, such as vowels and consonants) |
| tab character | karattru tat-tabulazzjoni (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 | karattru wildcard (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
