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