encoding
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.
Other meanings
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
Related words
- autoencoding
- Manchester encoding
- byte pair encoding
- percent-encoding
- URL encoding
- character encoding
- font encoding
- input encoding
- Church encoding
- run-length encoding
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “encoding” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.