Xiang Zhang added the comment:
There seems no standard. I also read the wikipedia but for perl and uuencode on
my Linux, they now all use backticks to represent zero instead of spaces.
[~]$ perl -e 'print pack("u","Ca\x00t")'
$0V$`=```
[~]$ cat /tmp/test
Ca[~]$ uuencode /tmp/test -
begin 664 -
"0V$`
`
end
while Python now:
>>> import uu
>>> uu.encode('/tmp/test', '-')
begin 664 test
"0V$
end
Except the link Kyle gives, the manpage of FreeBSD describes the new algorithm:
http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/5/uuencode/
I don't propose to change current behaviour to break backwards compatibility.
But I think it's reasonable to provide a way to allow users to use backticks.
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