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I would assume it's for compatibility, things like null-bytes aren't generally valid inputs by messaging apps, they could have done base91 or something unicode-

by f_devd 3y ago

I would assume it's for compatibility, things like null-bytes aren't generally valid inputs by messaging apps, they could have done base91 or something unicode-based with msgpack/protobuf though

oefrha 3y ago
Hopefully it’s obvious I was talking about base64-encoded (or more compact) binary messages…
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- janosdebugs 3y ago
  Base64 adds ~30% in length to the message. Not sure it's worth it.