printable characters : Java Glossary

printable characters
Printable characters usually refers to the 7-bit ASCII set of characters, including space (32), excluding the control chars 0 to 31 and 127.

The process of converting binary to printable is called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) armouring, especially in the context of certificates and encryption.

armouring: essay on the various techniques for converting to and from printable
Base64
encipher
encode
encrypt
MIME

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