encoding

koodaus puhekieltä The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
(present participle of)
{{quote-journal|date=March 1, 1988|author=|title=Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero|journal=Neuron|url=http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/0896-6273%2888%2990211-5|page=73|doi=10.1016/0896-6273(88)90211-5