| English | Estonian |
| agent character | agendi tegelaskuju (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) |
| ANSI character set | ANSI märgistik (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) |
| base character | alusmärk (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| character code | tärgi kood (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| Character Map | Märgistik (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character pad | märgiala (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) |
| character set | märgistik (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) |
| character spacing | märgisamm (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| composite character | liitmärk (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) |
| Currency (An 8-byte, fixed-point data type that is useful for calculations involving money or for fixed-point calculations in which accuracy is extremely important. The Currency data type is used to store numbers with up to 15 digits to the left of the decimal point and 4 digits to the right. The type-declaration character in Microsoft© Visual Basic© is an at sign ( | Valuuta |
| double-byte characters | kahebaidine märk (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) |
| four character code | neljamärgikood (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| icon character | ikooni tegelaskuju (The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome) |
| list-separator character | loendi eraldusmärk (A character, usually a comma or semicolon, that separates elements in a list) |
| magnetic ink character recognition | magnetkirjatuvastus (A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters) |
| magnetic ink character recognition line | magnettindi märgituvastuse rida (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) |
| multibyte character set | mitmebaidine märgistik (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) |
| neutral character | neutraalmärk (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| non-printable character | mitteprinditav märk (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) |
| non-spacing character | sammuta märk (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| null character | null-tärk (" 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. ") |
| optical character recognition | optiline märgituvastus (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| optical character recognition | optiline märgituvastus (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| optical character recognition line | optilise märgituvastuse rida (A line of characters that is read by special character recognition equipment and translated into computer text) |
| precomposed character | liitmärk (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| single-byte character set | ühebaidine märgistik (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| spacing character | sammuga märk (A character with a non-zero width) |
| special character | erimärk (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) |
| tab character | tabeldusmärk (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) |
| wildcard character | metamärk (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
