putting a message into a certain code, often as a control to assure confidentiality.
imprinting of the dollar amount in machine readable characters- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), on checks sent through the banking system for collection, as well as checks deposited at the same bank from which the items are drawn. All preprinted checks have standard MICR line coding on the bottom edge, and for a good reason; the Federal Reserve refuses to handle unencoded checks as cash items, which means delayed funds availability for the depositor.
putting a message into a certain code, often as a control to assure confidentiality.
a way of interpreting binary data as representing characters. The term is used particularly in the Microsoft .NET Framework, which supports several formats of Unicode and many national variations on ASCII.
