Many developers are not native English speakers. Some special characters used in programming may be difficult to remember. Here is a list of special characters used in programming with their names in English:
| {, } | Braces, curly brackets |
| { | Left brace |
| } | Right brace |
| (, ) | Parentheses, round brackets |
| ( | Open / left bracket / parenthesis |
| ) | Close / right bracket / parenthesis |
| [, ] | Square brackets, brackets |
| [ | Open / left bracket |
| ] | Close /right bracket |
| ! | Exclamation mark |
| @ | ampersand |
| * | asterisk |
| – | Hyphen, dash |
| _ | underscore |
| = | Equal sign |
| : | colon |
| ; | semicolon |
| , | comma |
| . | Period, dot |
| < | Less than, angle brackets |
| > | Greater than, angle brackets |
| / | Forward slash |
| \ | Backslash |
| ~ | Tilde |
| ` | Grave accent, backtick, back quote |