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by jwatte
3497 days ago
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Berkeley Unix (or was that SunOS?) used to cone with btoa that used base 85, packing 4 bytes into 5 uucp/mail/Usenet safe characters.
For some reason, base 64 became the standard, and I don't think there's space for anything else these days. (Most things do just fine with binary now, anyway!) |
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