noncharacter
English
Etymology
non- + character
Noun
noncharacter (plural noncharacters)
- (computing) That which is not a character (unit of text).
- (Unicode) One of 66 code points (the 32 code points U+FDD0–U+FDEF, plus the last two code points - U+...FFFE and U+...FFFF - of each of the 17 planes) which are guaranteed never to be assigned and are intended for process-internal use.
- That which is not a character, as in literature.
- 2009, Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000 (page 325)
- Like the noncharacter at the center of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the screen's nonimage and the man it effaces enable other forms of repression, […]
- 2009, Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000 (page 325)