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One downside of ASCII is the lack of two extra “letters” (whatever they might be, e.g. perhaps German ß), as it makes it impossible to represent base 64 alphanu
by transfire 2y ago
One downside of ASCII is the lack of two extra “letters” (whatever they might be, e.g. perhaps German ß), as it makes it impossible to represent base 64 alphanumerically. So we ended up with many alternatives picking two arbitrary punctuation marks.
- zaxomi 2y agoRemember that ASCII is short for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". base64 was proposed in 1987 to work with ASCII, EBCDIC, and other character encodings.