Character (unit) - Character

Japanese: キャラクター(単位) - きゃらくたー
Character (unit) - Character

...Also, units of about 2 or 4 bytes are often called words. When only a small number of characters are required, a 6-bit unit is sometimes called a character. This unit is sufficient to represent numbers, special symbols, and uppercase English letters. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "character (unit)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また2バイト,4バイト程度の単位をワードwordと呼ぶことも多い。字種が少なくてよい場合には6ビットの単位をキャラクターcharacterと呼ぶこともある。この単位は数字,特殊記号,英大文字を表すのに十分である。…

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