"characterwise" meaning in English

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          "text": "“What I saw was looking great, but characterwise I couldn’t tell who they are, what they do,” he said.",
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        "In terms of character."
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        "In terms of text characters."
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          "character",
          "character"
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        "(computing) In terms of text characters."
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          "ref": "1977, E. Edelhoff, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, On-line library and network systems: symposium",
          "text": "Subfields necessitate characterwise processing, because only that field is given an entry in the directory of a record which specifies the tag, the length and the starting character position of the field concerned[…]",
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        "In terms of text characters."
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        "(computing) In terms of text characters."
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        "In terms of character."
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        "(computing) In terms of text characters."
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