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11 Comments

1. Crutcher Dunnavant says:

   2009-04-06 at 22:46

   Rot13 – yes it is stupid, but it is perniciously common.

   Octal? (Base8)
2. John Dorsey says:

   2009-04-07 at 02:34

   How about Base36? I understand it still sees some use.

   http://tinyurl.com/jfvqr
3. Magnus says:

   2009-04-07 at 05:41

   @Crutcher, is rot13 on data (as in (v + 13) mod 255) really established? I’ve seen it used as a text encoding but not as a data encoding.

   I’m not sure what you mean by Octal (Base8), do you have any URL for it?

   @John, thanks for that link, I haven’t come across Base36 before myself.
4. solrize says:

   2009-04-07 at 08:12

   Yes, several, why not look at the ones included with python and incorporate all of them.
5. Magnus says:

   2009-04-07 at 08:58

   @solrize, where do I find a list of the data encodings included with Python?
6. csoroz says:

   2009-04-07 at 11:11

   Xxencode, Binhex, Quoted-Printable (encodings)
7. solrize says:

   2009-04-08 at 07:48

   http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings

   Hmm, there’s an awful lot. The list for Java is probably even worse.
8. Magnus says:

   2009-04-08 at 08:49

   @csoroz, thanks for that link. Now I have some more stuff to put into my Haskell data encoding library.

   @solrize, the vast majority of those encodings are for text (the first table), I’ll have a look at the ones in the second table some of them would be useful to have.
9. Niklas says:

   2009-04-10 at 12:56

   How about quoted-printable and URL encoding? I guess they are both most useful when the data is mostly ASCII but they can be used to encode arbitrary data.
10. Magnus says:

    2009-04-10 at 13:07

    @Niklas, they are included in the list I have so far: xxencode, binhex (hexadecimal), quoted-printable, python-string-escaping, and URI encoding (percent encoding).
11. Magnus says:

    2009-04-10 at 15:59

    @John, on reading more about Base 36 it seems it isn’t a data encoding at all, it’s only a numeral system with base 36 (just like hexadecimal is a numeral system with base 16). It’s confusing that the name is so similar to Base64 and others.