| Subject | English | German |
| tech. | character assignment of type levers | Typenhebelbewegung |
| tech. | character type | Zeichenart |
| IT, dat.proc. | character-type column | Kettenspalte |
| comp. | character-type file | byteorientierte Datei |
| comp. | character-type file | zeichenorientierte Datei |
| IT, dat.proc. | character-type variable | Kettenvariable |
| comp., MS | identifier type character | Bezeichner-Typzeichen (" 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%.") |
| comp., MS | literal type character | Literal-Typzeichen (A textual representation of a particular value of a data type. For example, 2147483647 represents a value of integer data type) |
| tech. | type character | Schriftcharakter |
| tech. | type character | Druckbuchstabe |