encoding

  1. Noun.  (context, 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. Noun.  A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
  3. Verb.  (present participle of, encode) .

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