Quote Originally Posted by brewbuck View Post
The two operations inherently have different names and there is no single word that adequately describes both of them.

("Literator" was probably a joke, and sounds completely ridiculous)
For what's it worth, I really like the word "literator" and the other derivations of "literate" -- true, it is not a real word, but the meaning is quite clear and appropriate enough, I think.

It is not so far from "serialize". Good one, audinue. (Tech) people make up new words and new uses for old words all the time.