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What do you call the act of translating binary into text?
Is it just called encoding, and the process of translating text into binary called decoding?
I think encoding and decoding are too general, so is there a word specific for encoding from binary into text?
There is no specific word. So use the phrase "Convert text to binary"
Think about what you actually mean.
"00100001 00100010" and "ab" are both text. The first is the "binary dump" of the second. But you would only normally want to make a binary dump if you are converting octets that can't be represented as text. And you would prefer to make a "hexdump" instead.
