textencoding
nounUK /ˈtɛkst ɪnˌkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ˈtɛkst ɪnˌkoʊdɪŋ/
Text encoding is a set of rules that tells a computer how to turn letters and symbols into numbers it can store.
The website uses UTF-8 text encoding so it can show letters from many languages.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The process of converting text into a coded form for storage or transmission.
Text encoding happens before the message is sent over the network.
3. A specific standard, such as UTF-8 or ASCII, used to represent characters as numbers.
If the text encoding is wrong, the page shows strange symbols instead of letters.
4. In computing, the mapping between characters and their numeric codes.
The programmer checked the text encoding to fix the garbled characters.