encoding system

In a digital system, a method of assigning binary codes to represent data. For text encoding, see ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode.

For non-text encoding, see MIME, BinHex, quoted printable encoding, UUcoding and codec examples.

For video encoding, see MPEG, YUV, YCbCr, chroma subsampling and codec examples.

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