From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023): char <programming> /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character. Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's typename for character data. [Jargon File] (1994-11-29)
char
<programming> /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ character. Especially used by C programmers, as "char" is C's typename for character data.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)
