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by bcaxis 822 days ago
For your trouble, you save some extra bytes with 85 vs 64.
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petre 822 days ago
With the added bonus of funny characters which are a pain to encode in JSON, XML and URLs. I guess I'll keep using using URL safe Base64, thank you.
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bcaxis 822 days ago
Modifying the base alphabet is simple if there are a couple of problem characters.

I use 85 in json just fine without escaping overhead. Never tried for URLs or XML.

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