What is encoding?

Encoding means to change a message into symbols.

Here are some examples of encoding:

• Changing oral language into writing
• Changing a written message into a system of signals or symbols such as Morse code or mathematical symbols

• Concept module: encoding
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): E
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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