> (...) but it was basically to use this instead Base32 is a representation format which provides a textual representation of numbers, not a storage format. I

> (...) but it was basically to use this instead Base32 is a representation format which provides a textual representation of numbers, not a storage format. I mean, anyone is free to dump Base32, or even base 2, into a string and just run with that, but that would be highly inefficient.