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  • verb transitive, computing To decode.

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un- +‎ encode

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  • GrabIt has been designed to gather all the relevent posts, download and unencode those posts for you so that all you have to do is select the post and GrabIt.

    How To Get EBooks On Your Palm | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • The alternative would be to encode the field names, but that would make them less friendly to search engines and auto-form fillers, and it would create a processing overhead to unencode the encoded names when the form is submitted.

    WebDeveloper.com 2010

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