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Paulo,
On 5/1/17 1:35 PM, Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda wrote:
> Apologies, I quoted the wrong bit!
>
> --8< When decoding, upper and lower case
> letters are accepted, and i and l will be treated as 1 and o will
> be treated a
Apologies, I quoted the wrong bit!
--8<
When decoding, upper and lower case letters are accepted, and i and l
will be treated as 1 and o will be treated as 0. When encoding, only
upper case letters are used.
--8<
Best,
Paulo
Em 01-05-2017 14:3
'ello!
I suspect it has something to do with Douglas Crockford's base32 [1]:
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The encoding scheme is required to
* Be human readable and machine readable.
* Be compact. Humans have difficulty in manipulating long strings of
arbitrary symbols.
* Be error resistant.
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All,
I spent a few hours trying to figure out what I had done wrong when
trying to base32-decode a 32-character string and was getting a 5-byte
array back (instead of a 20-byte array, as expected).
I finally determined that Base32.decode doesn't wo