On 09/02/2015 03:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> At present there are three incompatible but semi-standard >> versions of it. Here's a handy URL: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58 >> >> Would coreutils like a command-line tool to do this? > > Interesting. > I think there would need to be bit more standardization > for it to be appropriate for a general tool in coreutils.
By the way, coreutils added the base64 utility in coreutils 6.0 in 2006, after the creation of RFC 4648, and corresponding additions to gnulib to make the use of base64 easier to code. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648 Pursuing an RFC standardization of base58 (perhaps as a successor to 4648 that includes more encodings) might be an appropriate first step. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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