character encoding

collocation in English

meaningsofcharacterandencode

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character
noun
uk
/ˈkær.ək.tər/us
/ˈker.ək.tɚ/
the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different ...
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encode
verb
uk
/ɪnˈkəʊd/us
/ɪnˈkoʊd/
to change something into a system for sending messages secretly, or to represent complicated information in a simple or ...
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(Definition ofcharacterandencodefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcharacter encoding

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Such documents are guaranteed to use proper nesting of elements, escape sequences andcharacterencoding.
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Acharacterencodingis used in both computation, data storage, and transmission of textual data.
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Older web browsers can only display text supported by the current font associated with thecharacterencodingof the page.
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Also, the 7-bitcharacterencodingof the early days was an additional hindrance.
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Some file systems provide for user defined attributes such as the author of the document, thecharacterencodingof a document or the size of an image.
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The list of those codesets are described incharacterencoding.
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When this occurs, it is often possible to fix the issue by switching thecharacterencodingwithout loss of data.
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However, attempts to do this forcharacterencodinghave stumbled over the fact that ideographs do not decompose as simply or as regularly as it seems they should.
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The protocol lacks a specified defaultcharacterencodingfor clients or hubs.
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His work involved setting standards in the field ofcharacterencodingon computing systems.
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The standard does not define such elements as thecharacterencodingor the framing of characters, or error detection protocols.
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Both these classes have constructors that support specifying thecharacterencodingto use.
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It is in-band signaling in the context ofcharacterencoding.
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The symbol is then encoded, or converted into a number, based on the status of modifier keys and the desiredcharacterencoding.
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Incharacterencodingterms, it is an alternate glyph (in addition to the open zero glyph) for the zero character.
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A text file can contain any stream of characters, including possible control characters, and is encoded in one of variouscharacterencodingschemes.
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However, it is now commonplace for operating system vendors to provide their owncharacterencodingand rendering systems that run in a graphics mode and bypass this hardware limitation entirely.
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That means these users could have a different locale setup, and that means that aaa and bbb do not even necessarily have to have the samecharacterencoding.
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Escaping also allows for characters that are not easily typed, or that are not available in the document'scharacterencoding, to be represented within element and attribute content.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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