When systems exchange data, encoding and format determine how information can be interpreted. Go handles data internally as UTF-8 and provides packages and interfaces for translating formats such as JSON and XML into local structs, working with Base64 data, and adding or switching encoding support. section 1.2.2
Encoding
Encoding is the transformation of information into a representation defined by a scheme for storage, processing, transmission, or interpretation.
How Go in Practice, Second Edition covers it
- How deep it goes
- Names UTF-8, Base64, JSON, and XML cases and points to packages and interfaces without demonstrating implementation.
- Examples
- Uses Base64 data and JSON or XML translated into local objects or structs as examples.
- What you can do after
- Understand how Go packages and interfaces can translate JSON into structs, switch encodings, or add external support.
- How it connects
- Connects encoding with UTF-8, Base64, JSON, XML, Go structs, packages, and interfaces.
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Deep Learning with PyTorch, Second EditionA tokenizer function that converts text into numeric token representations.
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Modern C, Third EditionAn encoding is a mapping or representation that associates data values with character or textual forms.
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The Quick Python Book, Fourth Editionencode is a string method that converts text into a bytes object using a character encoding.
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Grokking AI Algorithms, Second EditionText encoding is the conversion of written language into numerical representations that a computer model can process.
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PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemA character encoding maps textual characters to coded representations such as bytes for storage and processing.
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Rust in Action: Systems programming concepts and techniquesAn encoding is a representation that maps information such as instructions or data to a defined sequence of symbols or bits.
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Related concepts
- UTF-8includes · UTF-8 is a variable-width Unicode encoding that represents each Unicode scalar value using one to four bytes and preserves ASCII byte representations.
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- PasswordEncoderpart of · PasswordEncoder is a Spring Security interface and strategy for encoding passwords and verifying supplied passwords against stored encoded representations.
- stringused by · A string is a programming-language value representing an ordered sequence of characters or character units as text.
- security through obscurityused by · Security through obscurity is a security approach that relies on concealing system designs, implementations, or configurations to impede attacks.
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