encoding

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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

Translations

character encoding (computing)

• Arabic: تَرْمِيز‎ m (tarmīz), إِنْكُودِينْغ‎ m (ʾinkūdinḡ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編碼 (zh), 编码 (zh) (biānmǎ)

• Dutch: codering (nl) f
• Finnish: koodaus
• French: codage (fr) m
• German: Kodierung (de) f
• Greek: κωδικοποίηση (el) f (kodikopoíisi)
• Hindi: एन्कोडिंग (enkoḍiṅg)

• Japanese: エンコーディング (enkōdingu), 文字コード (moji-kōdo)
• Korean: 인코딩 (inkoding)
• Kurdish: kodkarî f, kodkirin (ku) f
• Polish: kodowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: codificação (pt) f
• Russian: (result) кодиро́вка (ru) f (kodiróvka), набо́р си́мволов m (nabór símvolov); (process) коди́рование (ru) n (kodírovanije)
• Spanish: codificación (es) f
• Swedish: kodning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: biên mã (編碼)

See also

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

Verb

encoding

1. present participle of encode
   • 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron‎^[1], 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.