normalencoding

noun
UK /ˈnɔːməl ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ˈnɔːrməl ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/

Normalencoding is the usual way of turning words or pictures into a form a computer can store.

The file used normalencoding, so it opened on every computer without any trouble.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. The default character encoding a program uses when no other encoding is chosen.

If you don't pick an encoding, the editor falls back to normalencoding.

3. A plain, unmodified scheme for converting data into a storable format.

The engineers compared the compressed stream with normalencoding to check for errors.

4. The standard way a system represents text so that different devices can read it the same way.

Normalencoding kept the letters readable when the file moved between machines.