Graphic Character

A Graphic Character is an Computer Character that is encoded into a graphical representation.

• AKA: Printable Character, Encoded Character.
• Context:
  • It can be one or more computer characters encoded by a Text Rendering System.
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• Example(s):
  • a Formatted Text Characters such as B, b, $b$
  • a Mathematical Characters such as $\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^N\dfrac{x_i}{y_i}, \pm, \infty, \leq,$, etc.
  • a HTML Character such as: ©, €, £ α, ₹ ₨,@ ⇒ etc.
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• Counter-Example(s)
  • a Textual Character,
  • a Unicode,
  • a HTML Code such as ©, €, ₹ , £, α, @, ⇒, etc.
  • a Control Character,
  • an Optical Character.
• See: Glyph, ISO/IEC 646, ASCII, ISO 8859, Unicode, Character Encoding Decoding System, Markup Language, Text Processing System, Text Editing System, Text Error Correction System, Character-Level Language Model.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_character Retrieved:2020-2-17.
  • In ISO/IEC 646 (commonly known as ASCII) and related standards including ISO 8859 and Unicode, a graphic character is any character intended to be written, printed, or otherwise displayed in a form that can be read by humans. In other words, it is any encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs.

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