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Record 1 2013-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

A character encoding is a mapping between document characters and how they are represented in computer files when transferred over the Web.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Un encodage des caractères est une correspondance entre les caractères du document et la façon dont ils sont représentés dans les fichiers informatiques lorsqu'ils sont transférés sur le Web.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
  • Internet y telemática
DEF

Codificación, generalmente una codificación binaria, de un conjunto dado de caracteres.

CONT

ASCII y EBCDIC.

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