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.

Translations

well-defined correspondence between text characters and numeric values

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

See also

• character set
• repertoire