Any symbol on a computer. They can be numbers, letters, punctuation, spaces, etc. A character corresponds, in general, to a byte, made up of eight bits. There are special characters that need two bytes to be represented, these belong to a set called DBCS.
See: ASCII.
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Alegsa.com.ar (2016). Character Definition – ALEGSA url: https:///Dic/caracter.php
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