| Subject | English | Korean |
| comp., MS | control escape sequence | 제어 이스케이프 시퀀스 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "c" followed by one of the letters "a" through "z" or "A" through 'Z'. It matches the ASCII control character that is named by that letter) |
| comp., MS | escape character | 이스케이프 문자 (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| comp., MS | escape sequence | 이스케이프 시퀀스 (A character combination consisting of an escape character, usually a backslash, followed by a letter or by a combination of digits) |
| comp., MS | file format escape | 파일 서식 이스케이프 (" In regular expressions, the usual C language character escape sequences, "\\", "\a", "\b", "\f", "\n", "\r", "\t", "\v", with the usual meanings, that is, backslash, alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab, respectively.") |
| comp., MS | hexadecimal escape sequence | 16진수 이스케이프 시퀀스 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "x" followed by a sequence of hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the two digits) |
| comp., MS | identity escape | ID 이스케이프 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by a single character. It matches that character and is required when the character has a special meaning; by using the identity escape, the special meaning is removed) |
| comp., MS | octal escape sequence | 8진수 이스케이프 시퀀스 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by one, two, or three octal digits (0-7). It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by those digits) |
| comp., MS | unicode escape sequence | 유니코드 이스케이프 시퀀스 (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "u" followed by four hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the four digits) |