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Any good reason to still use base64 compared to base32 ? Since base64 seems to be not much more compact in practice (?), but also fails at transmission through

Any good reason to still use base64 compared to base32 ? Since base64 seems to be not much more compact in practice (?), but also fails at transmission through the lossy channel that is human communication. (Arguably, there's also hexadecimal, but compactness starts becoming an issue there ?)

Gibbon1 3y ago
Base64 you get 6 bits per byte, hex you get 4. For most things base64 provides no benefit worth the hassle.
ericyd 3y ago
For me it's just that utilities for base64 are included everywhere by default and the same is not true for base32