Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Thomas Gries<[email protected]> wrote: >> Was there a certain reason to chose base 36 ? >> Why not recoding to base 62 and saving 3 bytes per checksum ? >> > I don't know, this was way, way before my time. But then, why use base > 62 if you can use base 64? Encoders/decoders for that are much more > widely available. PHP's base_convert() will go up to 36, I think, so > you'd have to write a base 62 encoder/decoder yourself, but PHP has > built-in functions to deal with base 64.
Brion explained it on previous mail. And yes, we have our own converter in MediaWiki. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
