| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | agent character | 代理人物 (An interactive animated character who guides users through Windows Welcome. The character interacts with the user in ways similar to the natural aspects of human social communication. Characters can respond by using synthesized speech, recorded audio, or text in a cartoon word balloon) |
| comp., MS | ANSI character set | ANSI 字元集 (An 8-bit character set used by Microsoft Windows that allows you to represent up to 256 characters (0 through 255) by using your keyboard. The ASCII character set is a subset of the ANSI set) |
| comp., MS | Any Character | 任一字元 (A menu item that allows the user to search a string based on a wildcard for a character, when the number of letters is known. Example: The search for D*O** will return all five-letter words that begin with a D and where O is the third letter) |
| comp., MS | Any Character, 0 or More Matches | 任一字元，無或有符合 (A menu item that allows the user to search a string based on a wildcard for a character. Example: The search for D*O** will return all words that begin with a D and where O is the third letter) |
| comp., MS | ASCII character set | ASCII 字元集 (A standard 7-bit code for representing ASCII characters using binary values; code values range from 0 to 127. Most PC-based systems use an 8-bit extended ASCII code, with an extra 128 characters used to represent special symbols, foreign-language characters, and graphic symbols) |
| comp., MS | base character | 基底字元 (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| comp., MS | character cell | 字元格 (A rectangular block of pixels that represents the space in which a given character is drawn on the screen. Computer displays use different numbers of pixels as character cells. Character cells are not always the same size for a given font, however; for proportionally spaced fonts, such as those commonly displayed on the Apple Macintosh, the height within a given font remains the same, but the width varies with each character) |
| comp., MS | character data | 字元資料 (All the textual content of an element or attribute that is not markup. XML differentiates this plain text from binary data. In the XML OM, character data is stored in text nodes, which are implemented as DOM text objects) |
| comp., MS | character device | 字元裝置 (A computer device, such as a keyboard or printer, that receives or transmits information as a stream of characters, one character at a time. The characters can be transferred either bit by bit (serial transmission) or byte by byte (parallel transmission) but are not moved from place to place in blocks (groups of bytes)) |
| comp., MS | character encoding | 字元編碼 (A one-to-one mapping between a set of characters and a set of numbers) |
| comp., MS | character entity | 字元實體 (A code that's used in HTML to describe symbols, international letters, and other special characters. Character entities are maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO)) |
| comp., MS | character formatting | 字元格式設定 (Formatting you can apply to selected text characters) |
| comp., MS | character map | 字元對應表 (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) |
| comp., MS | Character Map | 字元對應表 (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| comp., MS | character mode | 字元模式 (" A display mode in which the monitor can display letters, numbers, and other text characters but no graphical images or WYSIWYG ("what-you-see-is-what-you-get") character formatting (italics, superscript, and so on).") |
| comp., MS | character pad | 輸入鍵台 (The pad in Tablet PC Input Panel that you can use to write one character (such as a letter, number, or symbol) at a time. Each character is converted into typed text) |
| comp., MS | character set | 字元集 (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) |
| comp., MS | character spacing | 字元間距 (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| comp., MS | character string | 字元字串 (A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computer as text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character set, such as letters, numbers, control characters, and extended ASCII characters) |
| comp., MS | character style | 字元樣式 (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| comp., MS | characters per second | 每秒字元數 (A measure of the rate at which a device, such as a disk drive, can transfer data. In serial communications, the speed of a modem in bits per second can generally be divided by 10 for a rough determination of the number of characters per second transmitted) |
| comp., MS | combining character | 組合字元 (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | composite character | 複合字元 (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 | 控制字元 (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 | double byte character set | 雙位元組字元集 (A character set that can use more than one byte to represent a single character. A DBCS includes some characters that consist of 1 byte and some characters that consist of 2 bytes. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use DBCS) |
| comp., MS | double-byte character set | 雙位元組字元集 (A character set that can use more than one byte to represent a single character. A DBCS includes some characters that consist of 1 byte and some characters that consist of 2 bytes. Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean use DBCS) |
| comp., MS | double-byte characters | 雙位元組字元 (A set of characters in which each character is represented by two bytes. Some languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, require double-byte character sets) |
| comp., MS | escape character | 逸出字元 (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| comp., MS | extended character | 擴充字元 (Any of the 128 additional characters in the extended ASCII (8-bit) character set. These characters include those in several non-English languages, such as accent marks, and special symbols used for creating pictures) |
| comp., MS | four character code | 四字元代碼 (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| comp., MS | full-width character | 全形字元 (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by 2 bytes and typically has a half-width variant) |
| comp., MS | half-width character | 半形字元 (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by one byte and typically has a full-width variant) |
| comp., MS | icon character | 圖示符號 (The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome) |
| comp., MS | identifier type character | 識別項型別字元 (" 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 | leader character | 前置字元 (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| comp., MS | list-separator character | 清單分隔字元 (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| comp., MS | literal type character | 常值型別字元 (A textual representation of a particular value of a data type. For example, 2147483647 represents a value of integer data type) |
| comp., MS | multibyte character set | 多位元組字元集 (A mixed-width character set, in which some characters consist of more than 1 byte. An MBCS is used in languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, where the 256 possible values of a single-byte character set are not sufficient to represent all possible characters) |
| comp., MS | neutral character | 中性字元 (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| comp., MS | non-printable character | 不可列印字元 (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 | nonprinting character | 非列印字元 (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 | 不佔空間字元 (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | null character | Null 字元 (" A character code with a null value; literally, a character meaning "nothing." Although it is real in the sense of being recognizable, occupying space internally in the computer, and being sent or received as a character, a NUL character displays nothing, takes no space on the screen or on paper, and causes no specific action when sent to a printer. In ASCII, NUL is represented by the character code 0. ") |
| comp., MS | optical character recognition | 光學字元辨識 (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| comp., MS | ordinary character | 一般字元 (In regular expressions, any valid character that does not have a special meaning in the current regular expression grammar) |
| comp., MS | pattern-matching character | 模式比對字元 (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| comp., MS | precomposed character | 預先組成的字元 (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| comp., MS | prefix characters | 前置詞字元 (A set of 1 to 4 bytes that prefix each data field in a native-format bulk-copy data file) |
| comp., MS | reserved character | 保留字元 (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 | 分隔符號字元 (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 | single-byte character set | 單一位元組字元集 (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| comp., MS | space character | 空白字元 (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 | 佔空間字元 (A character with a non-zero width) |
| comp., MS | tab character | 定位字元 (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 | Universal Character Set | 通用字元集 (An international standard character set reference that is part of the Unicode standard. The most widely held existing version of the UCS standard is UCS-2, which specifies 16-bit character values currently accepted and recognized for use to encode most of the world's languages) |
| comp., MS | unsafe character | Unsafe 字元 (A character in a URL that may be altered during transport across the Internet) |
| comp., MS | white-space character | 空白字元 (" Any characters that can be found between words - this includes space (" "), newline (carriage return in combination with line feed), and the tab character.") |
| comp., MS | wide character | 寬字元 (A 2-byte multilingual character code) |
| comp., MS | wildcard character | 萬用字元 (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |