Char

Definition

A `char` is a data type in programming that can store a single character, such as a letter, digit, or symbol. It takes up 2 bytes of memory.

Related terms

String:

A string is a sequence of characters stored together. Unlike the `char` data type which stores only one character, strings can store multiple characters.

ASCII: ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a character encoding scheme that assigns unique numeric codes to represent characters in computers.

Unicode: Unicode is an international standard that assigns unique numeric codes to represent characters from different languages and scripts around the world. It provides support for a wider range of characters compared to ASCII.