Transfer Encodings

File Format
Name	Transfer Encodings
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Transfer Encodings

A transfer encoding is a method of reversibly transforming data so that it uses a reduced set of bytes (or other symbols), to make it compatible with a protocol or format that does not allow all possible byte values.

It's not clear how common the term transfer encoding is. Web searches for it are useless, due to noise from the HTTP Transfer-Encoding and MIME Content-Transfer-Encoding headers.

Transfer encodings

• ASCII Encoded HP 48 Object (ASC)
• Ascii85 (Base85)
• Base32
• Base58
• Base64
• BinHex (.hqx)
• Crockford Base32
• Hex encoding (Base16)
• Percent-encoding
• Quoted-printable
• UTF-7
• Uuencoding
• Xxencoding
• yEnc

Related/Uncategorized

• Binary II (.bny) (for Apple II series) (often squeezed as .bqy)
• MacBinary
• MIME
• PEM
• Punycode
• Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF; winmail.dat)
• URL encoding

See also

• E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums: Transfer Encodings
• Archiving: Transfer encodings
• Serialization

Links

• Wikipedia: Binary-to-text encoding