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"It excludes the letters I, L, and O to avoid confusion with digits. It also excludes the letter U to reduce the likelihood of accidental obscenity." Excluding
by arethuza 6y ago
"It excludes the letters I, L, and O to avoid confusion with digits. It also excludes the letter U to reduce the likelihood of accidental obscenity."
Excluding ILO doesn't seem a bad idea - but leaving out U for that particular reasons seems downright weird:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#Crockford's_Base32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#Crockford's_Base32
- inopinatus 6y agoIt doesn’t exclude them. Ignore the Wikipedia text, and look at the decoding table instead.
- arethuza 6y agoTrue - they should be generated during encoding but are allowed during decoding: https://web.archive.org/web/20021223012947/http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html https://web.archive.org/web/20021223012947/http://www.crockf...
- munawwar 6y agobase58 avoids 0 as it looks similar to capital O in some fonts. Seems more reasonable than U.