encoding

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Derived terms 1.1.2 See also 1.1.3 Translations 1.2 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Noun

encoding (plural encodings)

1. (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).

[edit] Derived terms

• font encoding
• input encoding

[edit] See also

• Unicode
• UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-7
• iso-8859-1, cp-1252

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

encoding

1. Present participle of encode.