Textual Character

A Textual Character is a Computer Character that inputted by text entry interface and can be human-readable without character encoding.

• Example(s):
  • an Alphanumeric Character.
  • an ASCII Character Code,
  • a HTML Character Code,
  • a NewLine Character,
  • a Unicode,
  • a Punctuation Mark.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Graphic Character,
  • a Control Character.
  • a Wide Character.
• See: Plain Text, Text Processing System, Written Language, Natural Language, Character Encoding System, Numerical Digit, American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), Universal Coded Character Set, Character-Level Language Model, Character-Level Text Error Correction.

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References

2020a

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_processing#Characters Retrieved:2020-2-10.
  • Textual characters come in standardized character sets containing also control characters such a newline character, which arrange text. Other types of control characters arrange the transmission, define the character sets, and perform other housekeeping tasks.

2009

• (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 2009) ⇒ https://www.refseek.com/data/cache/en/1/Character_(computer).html Cached version from Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia discontinued website. Catched on October 31, 2009.
  • QUOTE: Character (computer), a letter, number, punctuation mark, or other symbol or control code that is represented, to a computer, by one unit—1 byte—of information. A character is not necessarily visible, either on the screen or on paper; a space, for example, is as much a character as is the letter a or any of the digits 0 through 9. Because computers must manage not only so-called printable characters but the look (formatting) and transfer of electronically stored information, a character can also indicate a carriage return or a paragraph mark in a word-processed document, or it can be a signal to sound a beep, begin a new page, or mark the end of a file. See also ASCII; Computer.

2006

• (Christensson, 2006) ⇒ Per Christensson. (2006). "Character Definition". Retrieved 2020, Feb 9, from https://techterms.com
  • QUOTE: A character is any letter, number, space, punctuation mark, or symbol that can be typed on a computer. The word “computer," for example, consists of eight characters. The phrase "Hi there." takes up nine characters. Each character requires one byte of space, so "computer" takes up 8 bytes. The list of characters that can be typed is defined by the ASCII and extended ASCII set. Some of the symbols available are pretty strange and may even make you say, "That's quite a character!"

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