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Character (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, or symbol, in the written form of a natural language. Computers and communication equipment represent characters using a character encoding that assigns each character to something — an integer quantity represented by a sequence of bits, typically — that can be stored or transmitted through a network. The definition of character, or abstract character, is mutually defined by The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 as "a member of a set of elements used for the organisation, control, or representation of data." Unicode's definition supplements this with explanatory notes that encourage the reader to differentiate between characters, graphemes, and glyphs, among other things. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Character_%28computing%29   (556 words)

Character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In psychiatry, a character structure is a constellation of enduring motivational and other traits that are manifested in the characteristic ways that an individual reacts to various challenges. In computing, a unit of information in computer storage or communications; see character (computing). In Catholicism, a sacramental character is a supernatural mark made on a person's soul by some sacraments. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Character   (332 words)

Character (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) In computer terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, or written symbol, of a natural language, such as a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark. It is important in some contexts to make the distinction that a character is a unit of information, and does not imply any particular physical appearance. The term glyph is used to describe a particular physical appearance of a symbol. www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Character_(computing)   (307 words)

AllRefer.com - optical character recognition (Computers And Computing) - Encyclopedia The light reflected by a printed text, for example, is recorded as patterns of light and dark areas by an array of photoelectric cells in a optical scanner. A computer program analyzes the patterns and identifies the characters they represent, with some tolerance for less than perfect and uniform text. OCR is also used to produce text files from computer files that contain images of alphanumeric characters, such as those produced by fax transmissions. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/opticalc.html   (233 words)

Character (computing)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The concept also includes control character s, which do not correspond to natural language symbols but to other bits of information used to process texts of the language, such as instructions to printer s or other devices that display such texts. The Indic Computing Project Involves preparation of a handbook for computing in Indian languages, with languages specific issues. The Character Education Partnership An organization committed to developing civic virtue and moral character in our youth for a more compassionate and responsible society. www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Character_(computing).html   (703 words)

Glossary of Selected Computing and Social Science Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Often computers work with chunks of bits rather than one bit at a time; the smallest chunk of bits a computer usually works with is a byte which is 8 bits. In UNIX a newline character is one byte: a linefeed. character encoding scheme, a packed decimal format might use a binary number to indicate the value of the digit in 4 bits of the byte and a code indicating whether the digit is positive or negative in the other 4 bits. odwin.ucsd.edu /glossary/glossary.html   (5076 words)

Character article - Character Greek Latin moral character losers literature psychiatry character - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The word originates from the Greek word χαρακτηρ via the Latin word character, an instrument for marking or graving. In mathematics, there are several meanings of the word character, all related to the idea of homomorphisms into the complex numbers. Character article - Character definition - what means Character www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Character   (297 words)

Han character - Computing Reference - eLook.org (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja). This unification is referred to as "Han Unification", with the resulting character repertoire sometimes referred to as "Unihan". www.elook.org /computing/han-character.htm   (122 words)

Character (computing)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) In computer terminology a character is a unit of information that corresponds to a grapheme or written symbol of a natural language such as a letter numeral or mark. In Unicode for example these two uses are characters and are signified by two different though they may look identical. Computers and communication equipment represent characters using character encoding that matches each character with an that can be stored and manipulated. www.freeglossary.com /Computer_character   (377 words)

Multilingual data processing in the CELLAR environment These are sequences of characters which for some purposes (such as sorting or breaking into sound units) should be considered as a single unit; for instance, in German the trigraph sch represents a single sound (the grooved alveopalatal fricative) and the digraph ng represents another single sound (the velar nasal). For some purposes one might want to view the string as a sequence of characters, for others as a sequence of sound units (where multigraphs are treated as single tokens), and for still others one might want to treat the string as a sequence of wordforms and punctuation marks. We need only be sure that each font is associated with the character set it is designed to display, and then ensure that the character set of the font matches the character set of the string when a request is made to display the given string with a particular font. www.sil.org /cellar/mlingdp/mlingdp.html   (12585 words)

Technical Note: Choice and Identification of XML Character Encodings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) In the context of computing, character set usually refers to a set of characters in which a unique numeric value is assigned to each character. In XML Unicode characters may be represented by mapping a Unicode code point to an encoded character in a non-Unicode character encoding. Character set conversion is usually inevitable when data travels from one environment to another, and it is impractical to keep the declaration correct during every conversion. www.oracle.com /technology/pub/notes/technote_encodings.html   (2202 words)

Character (computing) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Computers and communication equipment represent characters using a character encoding that matches each character with an integer that can be Character Sums with Exponential Functions and their Applications encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /character_(computing).htm   (350 words)

Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Computing modular and projective character degrees of soluble groups. Computing subgroups invariant under a set of automorphisms. Computing the character table of a finite group. magma.maths.usyd.edu.au /magma/htmlhelp/text310.htm   (75 words)

Character (computing)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The concept also includes control characters, which do not correspond to natural language symbolsbut to other bits of information used to process texts of the language, such as instructions to printers or other devices that display such texts. For example, the Hebrew letter "Aleph" is often used by mathematicians to denotecertain kinds of infinity, but also of course in ordinary Hebrew text. In Unicode, for example, these two uses are different characters and are signified by twodifferent codes, though they may look identical. www.therfcc.org /character-computing--97292.html   (260 words)

Wells: Orthographic diacritics Indeed, it is not so very long since computers were unable to cope with anything beyond the 26 upper-case and 26 lower-case letters of the Latin alphabet, along with the numerals and a few punctuation and other marks. A ready-made character may be assigned to a key combination, requiring that the AltGr key, or Ctrl and Alt together, be held down while a key is struck. Characters in the range up to U+00FF (decimal 255) can be entered by using the Alt key and the numerical keypad. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm   (9586 words)

[No title] Skills should be used when the character performs related actions, or when the character's skills would indicate she has relevant knowledge that the role-player should share. Usually, the role-player informs the Narrator that the character has a relevant skill, and the Narrator decides which skill resolution system is appropriate and uses that system to determine the success or impact of the skill. If the character is not aware of the specific attack but is aware that she is in a combat situation, the difficulty is set at her most relevant attribute, usually DEX. www-cse.ucsd.edu /users/russell/CRYSTAL/BREW/skillres.html   (3039 words)

Character Computing: Printer Ink, Toner Cartridges, Fax Ribbons, and More! Ward Bartsch (the "pop"--more commonly referred to as "dad") repaired computers with IBM for over 30 years and is one of those people who can take apart and fix just about anything. His son Daniel has worked with computers for 13 years and has a knack for software. Character Computing and the compatible and remanufactured products it sells are not affiliated with the manufacturer of any of these machines. www.charactercomputing.com   (232 words)

Hash character - Computing Reference - eLook.org The US usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice of using a "#" suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced "hash" outside the US. The name "octothorpe" was made up by a Bell Labs supervisor, Don Macpherson. www.elook.org /computing/hash-character.htm   (122 words)

Kevin's computing glossary: character set   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The basic set of letters and symbols that a computer uses, or are included in a particular font. Until recently it was standard to use a basic set of only 256 characters (i.e., one byte per character) but it is increasingly common to use a 2-byte character set to account the enormous range of symbols and non-English letters in use. The most fundamental character set is ASCII which has 128 characters and control symbols. www.kevinboone.com /compdict/character_set.html   (127 words)

Text encoding - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Since text is a sequence of characters, an encoding involves issues including the repertoire of characters to be represented, the mapping from this character repertoire to numeric values, and the details of the binary representation of the character values. For example, the code point for the ampersand (and) is 38 (Hex 26), and that for the well-known Han character 中 is 20,013 (Hex 4E2D). When computer professionals discuss "encodings" (particularly in the context of XML), they are quite likely to be referring to this integer-to-binary mapping. www.grohol.com /wiki/Text_encoding   (389 words)

character (computing) in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) For example, the Hebrew letter " Aleph" is often used by mathematicians to denote certain kinds of infinity, but also of course in ordinary Hebrew text. Computer & Video Games See all 12985 results in character (computing)... Classical Music See all 609 results in character (computing)... www.tutorgig.com /ed/character_%28computing%29   (447 words)

What is character? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary In computer software, any symbol that requires one byte of storage. In character-based software, everything that appears on the screen, including graphics symbols, is considered to be a character. In graphics-based applications, the term character is generally reserved for letters, numbers, and punctuation. www.webopedia.com /TERM/b/character.html   (272 words)

Character (computing) in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) dablinkThis article is about units of textual information in computers and telecommunication networks. Magazines See all 121 results in Character (computing)... Outdoor Living See all 74 results in Character (computing)... www.tutorgig.com /ed/Character_%28computing%29   (673 words)

An Annotated Bibliography in Pen Computing and Handwriting Character Recognition I find the very early references to pen computing the most interesting: the earliest I have are two United States patents, in this list as [Goldberg14] and [Drew19]. Another interesting slant is the many claims of "near perfect" handwriting recognition algorithms in the earliest days of pen computing, such as [Simek67] and [Dimond57]. Schomaker's MIAMI group in the "Esprit" project includes a detailed taxonomy and another large set of references relating to pen computing. users.erols.com /rwservices/biblio.html   (508 words)

Graphics Functions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) functions return the sum of the character metrics in pixels. Specifies the font used for the width computation. To determine the width of a 2-byte character string, use cs.wwc.edu /~davija/XLIB/08-15.html   (113 words)

character - OneLook Dictionary Search Character : Butterfly Glossary (networking terminology) [home, info] Phrases that include character: optical character recognition, character set, unit character, control character, character actor, more... Words similar to character: case, charactering, characterless, eccentric, fiber, fibre, grapheme, lineament, part, persona, quality, reference, role, type, character reference, fictional character, fictitious character, graphic symbol, oddball, theatrical role, more... www.onelook.com /?w=character&ls=a   (532 words)

C | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The designation C sometimes C is the Drive letter assignment drive letter that refers to the main Partition... On such a computer, all of a user s personal files are stored in directory directories on this drive In computing, C strings are string s stored as one dimensional character computing character array s in the C programming language C and C Plus Plus C programming languages. www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=C   (511 words)

Sharmahd Computing UniPad - Character Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The Character Map allows an easy selection of any Unicode character by simply clicking a character cell. The character will be inserted at the current position in the current document. Clicking with the secondary mouse button opens a context menu with a variety of functions. www.unipad.org /techinfo/screenshots/character_map.html   (57 words)

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