| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | control escape sequence | séquence Contrôle Échap (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 sequence | séquence d'échappement (A character combination consisting of an escape character, usually a backslash, followed by a letter or by a combination of digits) |
| comp., MS | hexadecimal escape sequence | séquence d'échappement hexadécimale (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 | octal escape sequence | séquence d'échappement octale (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 | Séquence d'échappement Unicode (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) |