Uuencoding

format that encodes binary data as a sequence of printable ASCII characters
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Uuencoding

Summary

Uuencoding is a file format[1]. Uuencoding draws 79 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #68 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • Uuencoding's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • Uuencoding's instance of is recorded as binary-to-text encoding[4].
  • Uuencoding's developer is recorded as Mary Ann Horton[5].
  • +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Uuencoding[6].
  • Uuencoding's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01zl87[7].
  • Uuencoding's media type is recorded as text/x-uuencode[8].
  • Uuencoding's file extension is recorded as uue[9].
  • Uuencoding's file extension is recorded as uu[10].
  • Uuencoding's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/uuencode[11].
  • Uuencoding's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as Uuencoding[12].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[3] and binary-to-text encoding[4].

History and Context

+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Uuencoding[6].

Why It Matters

Uuencoding draws 79 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #68 of 297).[2] Uuencoding has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Uuencoding is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . svn.apache.org. Retrieved . svn.apache.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Uuencoding. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/uuencoding
MLA “Uuencoding.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/uuencoding.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_uuencoding_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Uuencoding}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/uuencoding}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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