internalencoding
nounUK /ɪnˈtɜːnəl ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ɪnˈtɜːrnəl ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
The way a computer stores letters and symbols inside itself.
The program uses UTF-8 as its internal encoding for all text.
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2. The hidden format a system uses to represent data while working on it.
Changing the internal encoding can fix garbled text in the database.
3. In programming, the default encoding a language runtime uses for strings.
Python's internal encoding for source files is UTF-8 by default.
4. The mapping between characters and numbers kept inside a device.
The phone's internal encoding supports emoji and many languages.