Character (computing)

Character - primitive data type. Article "Character (computing)" in English Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Character (computing)", its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 684 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 376 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2515 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #734 in March 2001
• Global: #744 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51462 in September 2014
• Global: #40393 in September 2014

There are 32 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Aksara (pengkomputeran)		27.7408
2	English (en) Character (computing)		26.5272
3	Hindi (hi) कैरेक्टर (संगणन)		23.9126
4	Hebrew (he) תו (מחשב)		23.0241
5	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		22.5936
6	Arabic (ar) محرف (حوسبة)		22.1698
7	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		18.122
8	Slovak (sk) Znak (písmo)		17.6536
9	Esperanto (eo) Skribsigno		17.1849
10	Korean (ko) 문자 (컴퓨팅)		12.0521

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Character (computing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character (computing)		2 115 247
2	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		1 648 342
3	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		648 245
4	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		447 328
5	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		326 919
6	Polish (pl) Znaki pisarskie		269 463
7	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		220 009
8	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		127 326
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakter		87 928
10	Italian (it) Carattere (informatica)		82 487

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Character (computing)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character (computing)		5 102
2	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		3 393
3	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		616
4	Chinese (zh) 字符 (计算机科学)		534
5	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		495
6	Polish (pl) Znaki pisarskie		432
7	Simple English (simple) Character (computing)		385
8	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		376
9	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		370
10	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		198

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Character (computing)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character (computing)		123
2	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		60
3	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		40
4	Italian (it) Carattere (informatica)		40
5	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		39
6	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		35
7	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		35
8	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		33
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakter		30
10	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Character (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) محرف (حوسبة)		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Символен тип		0
3	Catalan (ca) Caràcter (tipus de dada)		0
4	Czech (cs) Znak (počítače)		0
5	Danish (da) Tegn (datalogi)		0
6	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		0
7	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας (υπολογιστές)		0
8	English (en) Character (computing)		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Skribsigno		0
10	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Character (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Character (computing)		376
2	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		231
3	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		191
4	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		162
5	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		152
6	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		145
7	Polish (pl) Znaki pisarskie		132
8	Chinese (zh) 字符 (计算机科学)		125
9	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		120
10	Ukrainian (uk) Символьний тип даних		114

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محرف (حوسبة)
bg	Bulgarian Символен тип
ca	Catalan Caràcter (tipus de dada)
cs	Czech Znak (počítače)
da	Danish Tegn (datalogi)
de	German Char (Datentyp)
el	Greek Χαρακτήρας (υπολογιστές)
en	English Character (computing)
eo	Esperanto Skribsigno
es	Spanish Carácter (tipo de dato)
fa	Persian نویسه (رایانش)
fr	French Caractère (informatique)
he	Hebrew תו (מחשב)
hi	Hindi कैरेक्टर (संगणन)
hu	Hungarian Karakter
id	Indonesian Karakter (komputasi)
it	Italian Carattere (informatica)
ja	Japanese キャラクタ (コンピュータ)
ko	Korean 문자 (컴퓨팅)
ms	Malay Aksara (pengkomputeran)
nl	Dutch Karakter (informatica)
pl	Polish Znaki pisarskie
pt	Portuguese Caractere
ro	Romanian Caracter (informatică)
ru	Russian Символьный тип
simple	Simple English Character (computing)
sk	Slovak Znak (písmo)
sl	Slovenian Znak (računalništvo)
tr	Turkish Karakter (bilişim)
uk	Ukrainian Символьний тип даних
zh	Chinese 字符 (计算机科学)
zhminnan	Min Nan Jī-goân

Best Rank

English: #51462 09.2014

Global: #40393 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #734 03.2001

Global: #744 03.2001

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