Character (computing)

Quality:

Character - primitive data type. Article “Character (computing)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.37 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Character (computing)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3325^th place) and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Character (computing)”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 719 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2499 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #464 in July 2013
• Global: #811 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6259 in June 2018
• Global: #39431 in November 2014

There are 34 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, 2026 (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	Catalan (ca) Caràcter (tipus de dada)		29.9737
2	English (en) Character (computing)		29.1237
3	Malay (ms) Aksara (pengkomputeran)		28.2891
4	Korean (ko) 문자 (컴퓨팅)		25.5767
5	Hindi (hi) कैरेक्टर (संगणन)		23.91
6	Kazakh (kk) Таңба		22.5171
7	Arabic (ar) محرف (حوسبة)		22.1629
8	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		21.3848
9	Hebrew (he) תו (מחשב)		19.9188
10	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		17.9187

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character (computing)		2 148 631
2	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		1 676 428
3	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		654 406
4	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		454 813
5	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		340 197
6	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		224 378
7	Polish (pl) Znakowy typ danych		214 344
8	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		130 385
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakter		89 104
10	Italian (it) Carattere (informatica)		83 738

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character (computing)		2 459
2	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		1 922
3	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		407
4	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		394
5	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας (υπολογιστές)		352
6	Chinese (zh) 字符 (计算机科学)		298
7	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		221
8	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		163
9	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		162
10	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		140

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character (computing)		132
2	French (fr) Caractère (informatique)		61
3	German (de) Char (Datentyp)		42
4	Italian (it) Carattere (informatica)		40
5	Portuguese (pt) Caractere		39
6	Japanese (ja) キャラクタ (コンピュータ)		37
7	Spanish (es) Carácter (tipo de dato)		35
8	Russian (ru) Символьный тип		33
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakter		31
10	Persian (fa) نویسه (رایانش)		26

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

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

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

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