character encoding

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1 English
- 1.1 Noun
  - 1.1.1 Related terms
  - 1.1.2 Translations

English [edit]

Noun [edit]

character encoding (plural character encodings)

(computing) A well-defined correspondence between characters and numbers used to represent them.

Related terms [edit]

character set

Translations [edit]

well-defined correspondence between characters and numbers used to represent them

Chinese: 编码 (biānmă)
Finnish: tavuesitys

German: Zeichenkodierung f
Greek: κωδικοποίηση χαρακτήρων

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