| Subject | English | Galician |
| comp., MS | base character | carácter básico (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| comp., MS | character code | código de carácter (A numeric value that corresponds to a particular character in a set) |
| comp., MS | character map | mapa de caracteres (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 | Mapa de caracteres (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| comp., MS | character set | conxunto de caracteres (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 | espazamento entre caracteres (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 style | estilo de caracteres (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| comp., MS | composite character | carácter composto (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 | leader character | carácter de recheo (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| comp., MS | non-printable character | carácter non imprimible (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 | carácter non imprimible (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 | carácter de combinación (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | optical character recognition | recoñecemento óptico de caracteres (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| comp., MS | pattern-matching character | carácter universal (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
| comp., MS | precomposed character | carácter precomposto (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| comp., MS | separator character | carácter separador (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 | spacing character | carácter de espazamento (A character with a non-zero width) |
| comp., MS | tab character | carácter de tabulación (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 | wildcard character | carácter comodín (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
