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Understand Italian is easy at first to convert into binary form (8)

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I believe the answer is:

digitise

'convert into binary form' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'understand italian is easy at first' is the wordplay.
'understand' becomes 'dig' (digging is a kind of understanding).
'italian' becomes 'it'.
'at first' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'easy' is 'e'.
'dig'+'it'+'is'+'e'='DIGITISE'

'to' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for digitise that I've seen before include "Convert into binary form" , "Put into a form suitable to a computer" , "To transcribe data" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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