The AXS TXT glossary
Plain-English definitions of the terms you meet when working with text and code.
Base64
Base64 is a way of encoding binary or text data as a string of 64 safe ASCII characters.
JSON
JSON is a lightweight, human-readable text format for storing and exchanging structured data.
Hash (SHA)
A hash turns any input into a fixed-length fingerprint; the SHA family is the most widely used.
URL Slug
A slug is the readable, hyphenated part of a URL that identifies a page, e.g. my-blog-post.
URL Encoding (Percent-encoding)
URL encoding replaces unsafe characters in a URL with a % followed by their hex code.
Character Encoding (UTF-8)
Character encoding maps characters to bytes; UTF-8 is the standard that covers every language.