| Subject | English | Azerbaijani |
| comp., MS | base character | əsas işarə (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| comp., MS | character code | simvol kodu (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| comp., MS | character style | işarə üslubu (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| comp., MS | composite character | tərkibli işarə (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) |
| comp., MS | control character | idarəedici simvol (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) |
| comp., MS | leader character | doldurucu işarə (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| comp., MS | list-separator character | siyahı ayırıcı simvol (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| comp., MS | neutral character | neytral simvol (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| comp., MS | nonprinting character | çapolunmayan işarə (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) |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | yertutmayan işarə (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | optical character recognition | simvolların optik tanınması (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| comp., MS | pattern-matching character | əvəzedici simvol (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| comp., MS | precomposed character | tərkibi işarə (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| comp., MS | reserved character | saxlanılan simvol (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 (|)) |
| comp., MS | separator character | ayırıcı simvol (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) |
| comp., MS | space character | boşluq simvolu (A character that is entered by pressing the SPACEBAR on the keyboard and that typically appears on the screen as a blank space) |
| comp., MS | spacing character | yertutan işarə (A character with a non-zero width) |
| comp., MS | special character | xüsusi simvol (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) |
| comp., MS | strong character | güclü simvol (A character that is part of the set that makes up a particular language, such as vowels and consonants) |
| comp., MS | tab character | tabulyasiya işarəsi (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) |
| comp., MS | wildcard character | şablon-işarə (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |