| German | English |
| Beliebiges Zeichen | 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) |
| Beliebiges Zeichen, 0 oder mehr Treffer | 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) |
| CJK-Zeichen | CJK Strokes (A set of individual strokes in the Unicode Standard used to compose Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) ideographs) |
| diakritisches Zeichen | diacritic (A mark placed over, under, or through a character, usually to indicate a change in phonetic value from the unmarked state) |
| diakritisches Zeichen | diacritical mark (A mark placed over, under, or through a character, usually to indicate a change in phonetic value from the unmarked state) |
| diakritisches Zeichen | diacritical mark (A mark placed over, under, or through a character, usually to indicate a change in phonetic value from the unmarked state) |
| Erkennung von magnetisierten Zeichen | magnetic ink character recognition A character recognition system for reading and processing data that uses special inks and characters (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) |
| Größer-als-Zeichen | greater than sign (The > character) |
| Größer-als-Zeichen | right angle bracket (The > character) |
| Größer-als-Zeichen | GREATER-THAN SIGN (The > character) |
| Größer-gleich-Zeichen | greater than or equal to sign (The ≥ character) |
| ideografisches Zeichen | ideographic character (A character in an Asian writing system that represents a concept or an idea, but not a particular word or pronunciation) |
| kaufmännisches Und-Zeichen | ampersand (The & character) |
| kaufmännisches Und-Zeichen | AMPERSAND (The & character) |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | less than sign (The < character) |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | LESS-THAN SIGN (The < character) |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | less than sign (The |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | LESS-THAN SIGN (The |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | left angle bracket (The |
| Kleiner-als-Zeichen | left angle bracket (The < character) |
| Kleiner-gleich-Zeichen | less than or equal to sign (The ≤ character) |
| Kleiner-gleich-Zeichen | LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO (The ≤ character) |
| Neue-Zeile-Zeichen | new line character (A control character that causes the cursor on a display or the printing mechanism on a printer to move to the beginning of the next line) |
| neutrales Zeichen | neutral character (A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes) |
| nicht druckbares Zeichen | 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) |
| nicht druckbares Zeichen | 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) |
| normales Zeichen | ordinary character (In regular expressions, any valid character that does not have a special meaning in the current regular expression grammar) |
| reserviertes Zeichen | 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 (|)) |
| unsicheres Zeichen | unsafe character (A character in a URL that may be altered during transport across the Internet) |
| vorverfasstes Zeichen | precomposed character (A single character that represents a sequence of characters, usually a combination of a base character and one or more diacritics) |
| 4-Zeichen-Code | four character code (A 32-bit unsigned integer that is created by concatenating four ASCII characters to identify a data format) |
| Zeichen halber Breite | half-width character (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by one byte and typically has a full-width variant) |
| Zeichen normaler Breite | full-width character (In a double-byte character set, a character that is represented by 2 bytes and typically has a half-width variant) |
| Zeichen 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. ") |
| Zeichen ohne Zwischenraum | non-spacing character (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| Zeichen ohne Zwischenraum | combining character (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
