encoding

English

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).

Derived terms

• font encoding
• input encoding

See also

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

Translations

character encoding (computing)

Arabic: ترميز (ar) (tarmiiz) m., إنكودينغ (ar) ('inkuudingh) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 編碼 (cmn), 编码 (cmn) (biānmǎ) Dutch: codering (nl) f. Finnish: koodaus (fi) French: codage (fr) m. German: Kodierung (de) f. Greek: κωδικοποίηση (el) (kodikopoí'isi) f.

Hindi: एन्कोडिंग (hi) (enkoḍiṅg) Japanese: エンコーディング (ja) (enkōdingu), 文字コード (ja) (moji-kōdo) Korean: 인코딩 (ko) (inkoding) Russian: (result) кодировка (ru) (kodiróvka) f., набор символов (ru) (nabór símvolov) m.; (process) кодирование (ru) (kodírovanije) n. Spanish: codificación (es) f. Vietnamese: biên mã (vi) (編碼 (vi))

Verb

encoding

1. Present participle of encode.
   • 1988,, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, Neuron, DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(88)90211-5, page 73: 

     We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.