[Tex/LaTex] the difference between font encoding and input encoding

font-encodingsinput-encodings

From list of obsolete packages and classes we must avoid, I found 2 terminologies, i.e., font-encoding and input-encoding. What is the difference between them?

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Input encoding is on the, sorry, input side, i.e. getting the characters from your input file into (La)TeX correctly. Font encoding is on the output side, i.e. "I want to print an 'A', where in my font do I find it?".

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