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This is a similar encoding as airline reservation numbers, except it also has lowercase characters. But the requirements are very similar. It's amazing how much
by athenot 8y ago
This is a similar encoding as airline reservation numbers, except it also has lowercase characters. But the requirements are very similar. It's amazing how much confusion is removed by suppressing ambiguities between number 0 vs. letter O and number 1 vs. letter I.
For reservation numbers, doing away with case makes it easier to speak the number over the phone.
- jimktrains2 8y agoCrockford base32?
- decentralised 8y agoIt's amazing how user experience can be affected from this deep in the stack.
- kulahan 8y agoIt might be interesting to see a form of encoding that removes similar-sounding letters/numbers as well. No more "A" or "J", "B" or "D", "3" or "T" confusion. Just stuff with a distinct sound!