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.