I needed a way to embed arbitrary strings in URLs, as readably as possible. I thought "hey, isn't that what Punycode does?" It turns out, no: Punycode only work

I needed a way to embed arbitrary strings in URLs, as readably as possible. I thought "hey, isn't that what Punycode does?" It turns out, no: Punycode only works for embedding non-ASCII text in URLs, it does not turn ASCII into valid URLs. So I made my own encoding, and called it Dashycode: https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/lib/DASHYCODE.md https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/blob/master/lib/D...