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Why convert to Base64?

• ibrault 8y ago
  To save on bandwidth and storage, I would guess
  • rounce 8y ago
    By making it roughly 1/3 larger?
    • ibrault 8y ago
      Oh yikes does it really? Ignore my misinformed comment...
      • rounce 8y ago
        An explanation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Output_padding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Output_padding
• sbussard 8y ago
  It seemed easier to deal with / parse out of local storage. Maybe it wasn't 100% necessary. It looks like it's caused bugs for non-latin characters.
  • pspeter3 8y ago
    Do you have a link to the bugs? I had never seen that before.
    • sbussard 8y ago
      https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/issues https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/issues
    • sbussard 8y ago
      the fix: https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/pull/16 https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/pull/16