| French | English |
| caractère composite | composite character (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) |
| caractère de base | base character (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| caractère de contrôle | control character (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) |
| caractère de non-espacement | non-spacing character (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| caractère de non-espacement | combining character (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| caractère de suite | leader character (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| caractère de séparation, séparateur | separator character (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) |
| caractère de tabulation | tab character (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) |
| caractère de type identificateur | identifier type character (" 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%.") |
| caractère de type littéral | literal type character (A textual representation of a particular value of a data type. For example, 2147483647 represents a value of integer data type) |
| caractère d'espacement | spacing character (A character with a non-zero width) |
| caractère d'échappement | escape character (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| caractère générique | wildcard character (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| caractère générique | wildcard (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| caractère générique | pattern-matching character (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| Caractère informatif | Informational (A content descriptor developed by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)) |
| caractère large | wide character (A 2-byte multilingual character code) |
| caractère neutre | neutral character (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| caractère non imprimable | nonprinting character (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) |
| caractère non imprimable | non-printable character (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) |
| caractère non sécurisé | unsafe character (A character in a URL that may be altered during transport across the Internet) |
| caractère Null | null character (" 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. ") |
| caractère ordinaire | ordinary character (In regular expressions, any valid character that does not have a special meaning in the current regular expression grammar) |
| caractère précomposé | precomposed character (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| caractère réservé | reserved character (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 (|)) |
| caractère spécial | special character (A character that is not found on your keyboard and must be inserted from within the software or by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard) |
| caractère spécifique de dossier | directory character (" A character that is used to denote the directory, for instance "\" or "/" or ":". Depending on what OS you're running on e.g. c:\bin\dos\ would be a directory on your machine.") |
| caractère séparateur de liste | list-separator character (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| caractère à demi-chasse | half-width character (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by one byte and typically has a full-width variant) |
| caractère à pleine chasse | full-width character (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by 2 bytes and typically has a half-width variant) |
| caractère étendu | extended character (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) |
| caractères codés sur deux octets | double-byte characters (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) |
| caractères de préfixe | prefix characters (A set of 1 to 4 bytes that prefix each data field in a native-format bulk-copy data file) |
| chaîne de caractères | text string (A group of characters or character bytes representing text handled as a single entity) |
| chaîne de caractères | character string (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) |
| codage de caractères | character encoding (A one-to-one mapping between a set of characters and a set of numbers) |
| code de caractère | code point (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| code de caractère | character code (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| données caractères | character data (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) |
| entité de caractère | character entity (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)) |
| espacement des caractères | character spacing (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| jeu de caractères | character set (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) |
| jeu de caractères ANSI | ANSI character set (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) |
| jeu de caractères ASCII | ASCII character set (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) |
| jeu de caractères codés sur deux octets | double byte character set (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) |
| jeu de caractères codés sur deux octets | double-byte character set (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) |
| jeu de caractères codés sur un octet | single-byte character set (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| jeu de caractères multioctets | multibyte character set (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) |
| jeu universel de caractères | Universal Character Set (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) |
| ligne de reconnaissance des caractères à encre magnétique | magnetic ink character recognition line (A line of characters that is encoded with a special type of ink that can be magnetized and then translated into characters. MICR lines are used on bank checks to identify the bank, account, and check) |
| ligne de reconnaissance optique des caractères | optical character recognition line (A line of characters that is read by special character recognition equipment and translated into computer text) |
| mise en forme de caractères | character formatting (Formatting you can apply to selected text characters) |
| mode caractère | character mode (" 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).") |
| pavé de caractères | character pad (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) |
| reconnaissance des caractères à encre magnétique | magnetic ink character recognition (A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters) |
| reconnaissance optique de caractères | optical character recognition (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| situations à caractère sexuel | sexual situations (A label in a voluntary content-based rating system used by TV networks in the United States to indicate to viewers if a particular show has higher levels of sex, violence or adult language) |
| style de caractère | character style (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| Table des caractères | Character Map (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| Table des caractères | Character Map (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| Tout caractère | Any Character (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) |
| Tout caractère, 0 correspondance ou plus | Any Character, 0 or More Matches (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) |
| type de données caractères | char data type (A character data type that holds a maximum of 8,000 characters) |
| utilisation des caractères génériques | wildcarding (In DNS, the supported use of wildcard characters such as the asterisk (*) in domain names for DNS queries that resolve to multiple names. When wildcarding is used, DNS servers must support resolving name queries that use wildcard characters, and resolvers must be able to parse multiple records from any resource record sets (RRsets) issued in wildcard query responses) |
| utilisation des caractères génériques | globbing (In DNS, the supported use of wildcard characters such as the asterisk (*) in domain names for DNS queries that resolve to multiple names. When wildcarding is used, DNS servers must support resolving name queries that use wildcard characters, and resolvers must be able to parse multiple records from any resource record sets (RRsets) issued in wildcard query responses) |
