| English | Slovak |
| agent character | postavička (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) |
| ASCII character set | tabuľka znakov ASCII (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) |
| base character | základ znaku (A character that has meaning independent of other characters, or any graphical character that is not a diacritical mark) |
| character entity | entita znaku (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)) |
| character formatting | formátovanie znaku (Formatting you can apply to selected text characters) |
| character map | mapa znakov (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) |
| Character Map | mapa znakov (A feature in Windows that makes it possible to use characters that are not displayed on the keyboard) |
| character mode | znakový režim (" 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).") |
| character pad | pole na zadávanie znakov (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 | tabuľka znakov (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 | medziznakové medzery (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| character string | znakový reťazec (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) |
| character style | štýl znaku (A combination of any of the character formatting options identified by a style name) |
| composite character | znak s diakritikou (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) |
| control character | ovládací znak (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) |
| double-byte characters | dvojbajtové znaky (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) |
| extended character | znak s diakritikou (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) |
| four character code | štvorznakový kód (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| icon character | animovaná ikona (The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome) |
| leader character | vodiaci znak (A dot, hyphen, or other character used to create a line that fills the space before a tab stop) |
| multibyte character set | viacbajtová tabuľka znakov (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) |
| non-printable character | netlačiteľný znak (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) |
| nonprinting character | netlačiteľný znak (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 | doplnkový znak (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| null character | znak Null (" 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 | optické rozpoznávanie znakov OCR (A method of translating images of printed text into machine-encoded text) |
| precomposed character | zložený znak (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| reserved character | vyhradený znak (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 (|)) |
| separator character | znak oddeľovača (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) |
| single-byte character set | SBSC, tabuľka jednobajtových znakov (A character encoding in which each character is represented by 1 byte. Single byte character sets are mathematically limited to 256 characters) |
| spacing character | znak s nenulovou šírkou (A character with a non-zero width) |
| special character | špeciálny znak (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 | znak tabulátora (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 | zástupný znak (A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters when conducting a query) |
