-2

As the subject indicates, should and be merged?

0

1 Answer 1

2

I don't think so

can be about encoding any binary data stream. For example encode a JPG file using Huffman encoding, or encode a video file using some codec. There are a lot of questions about video encoding in that tag

OTOH is specifically about the encoding of characters, which is a subset of the other tag

I think the tag wiki for should be edited. Currently it only talks about character encoding

The fine art of converting letters into numbers. ASCII, ISO Latin-1, Unicode, EBCDIC… There are dozens of currently used encodings and converting between them is now a witch craft.

The tag wiki for is correct

A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else — such as a bit pattern, sequence of natural numbers, octets, or electrical pulses — in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers or text) through telecommunication networks or for data storage.

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .