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A '''character''' is a block of information that corresponds (usually) to a written character.

Originally, each character was typically stored in a single 6-[[bit]] [[byte]]; later, 8-bit bytes were used almost exclusively (to the point where 'byte' and 'character' were virtually synonynms).

The [[SIXBIT]] code was commonly used for the first; for the second, the [[ASCII]] code (for Latin characters) was most popular, although [[International Business Machines|IBM]]'s [[EBCDIC]] also saw extensive use.

With the growth of computer use world-wide, along with per-language encodings, eventually the local ones were all replaced with [[Unicode]], which contains most written symbols; in it, they are specified by variable-length codings (with the most common ones, such as the Latin characters of ASCII, still using only one byte).

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