| English | Lao |
| base character | ຖານຕົວໜັງສື (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| character map | ແຜນສະແດງຕົວໜັງສື (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 | ແຜນສະແດງຕົວໜັງສື (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character set | ລະຫັດຕົວໜັງສື (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 | ໄລຍະຫ່າງຕົວໜັງສື (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| character style | ລັກສະນະຕົວໜັງສື (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| combining character | ຕົວໜັງສືປະສົມ (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| composite character | ຕົວອັກສອນແບບປະສົມ (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) |
| leader character | ຕົວໜັງສືໝາຍຫົວແຖວ (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| nonprinting character | ຕົວໜັງສືທີ່ພິມບໍ່ໄດ້ (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 | ຕົວໜັງສືທີ່ບໍ່ມີໄລຍະຫ່າງທາງແຖວ (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| optical character recognition | ການກ່າຍຕົວໜັງສືດ້ວຍແສງ (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| precomposed character | ຕົວໜັງສືປະສົມ (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| spacing character | ຕົວໜັງສືທີ່ມີໄລຍະຫ່າງທາງແຖວ (A character with a non-zero width) |
| tab character | ຕົວເລື່ອນຕົວໜັງສືໃຫ້ຫ່າງ (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 | ເຄື່ອງໝາຍແທນຕົວໜັງສື (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
