character encoding

English

Noun

character encoding (plural character encodings)

1. (computing) A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.

Related terms

• character set

Translations

well-defined correspondence between text characters and numeric values

• Chinese: 编码 (biānmă)
• Finnish: merkistökoodaus, tavuesitys
• German: Zeichenkodierung f
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• Greek: κωδικοποίηση χαρακτήρων (el) (kodikopoíisi charaktíron)
• Hungarian: karakterkódolás