Encoding vs Recoding - What's the difference?
encoding | recoding |
(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
* {{quote-journal , year=1988 , date=1 March 1988 , author= , title=Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero , journal=Neuron
, passage=We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.}}
As nouns the difference between encoding and recoding
is that encoding is (computing) the way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, eg in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text while recoding is the act or result of coding again or differently.As verbs the difference between encoding and recoding
is that encoding is while recoding is .encoding
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(en noun)Derived terms
* font encoding * input encodingSee also
* Unicode * *Verb
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