encoding

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊdɪŋ
• Hyphenation: en‧cod‧ing

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.

   Coordinate term: codification

2. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).

   Antonym: decoding

Derived terms

• autoencoding
• character encoding
• Church encoding
• font encoding
• input encoding
• Manchester encoding
• run-length encoding

Translations

character encoding (computing)

Arabic: تَرْمِيز m (tarmīz), إِنْكُودِينْغ m (ʔinkūdinḡ) Azerbaijani: kodlaşdırma Chinese: Mandarin: 編碼 / 编码 (zh) (biānmǎ) Dutch: codering (nl) f Esperanto: kodoprezento 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 (ja) (moji-kōdo) Korean: 인코딩 (inkoding) Kurdish: Northern 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 and gerund of encode
   • 1988 March 1, “Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero”, in Neuron‎, →DOI, page 73:

     We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.