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I think the parent is saying that we can make UUIDs more human-readable by displaying the underlying 128 bits with a larger set of characters.
by shepherdjerred 3y ago
I think the parent is saying that we can make UUIDs more human-readable by displaying the underlying 128 bits with a larger set of characters.
- dragonwriter 3y agoWe could make the string representation more compact with more characters, but I’m not sure compactness and readability are the same, especially any compactness that takes more than the ASCII character set (sure, just the hexadecimal digits may be fewer than ideal.)
- chungy 3y agoBase58 and Base64 exist in pure-ASCII space. Expanding into non-ASCII characters would probably just be confusing.