CHARACTERENCODING

Character encoding

A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else—such as a bit pattern, sequence of natural numbers, octets, or electrical pulses—in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or for data storage. Other terms such as character set, character map, codeset, and code page are used almost interchangeably, but these terms have related but distinct meanings described below.

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character encoding

Noun

  1. A well-defined correspondence between characters and numbers used to represent them.


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