An alternative that does not use control characters

[DonaldTsang]

Since this is made to be UTF-8 compatible, why not make it such that it renders all text normally?

[githubhjs]

Seconded. Control characters make it impossible to copy & paste, which is an important usage given certain circumstances.

[sijanec]

BasE91 -- http://base91.sourceforge.net/

already with C libraries. Base122 needs some C libraries.

[DonaldTsang]

@sijanec is this better or worse than B122?

[sijanec]

In terms of data overhead, it is worse than base122, because it has a smaller character set to display the same amount of data.

Roughly speaking, the higher the "base-number" in base-n binary-to text encoding, the less data is required to represent a specific amount of binary data. If you - for example - need an even "better" encoding, you can go with Base128, that still remains in the ASCII range 0x00-0x7F, but includes even more control characters and even null char, which may not be an option.

V V pet., 21. avg. 2020 ob 04:00 je oseba Don Tsang < [email protected]> napisala:

@sijanec https://github.com/sijanec is this better or worse than B122?

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