That's a definite possibility. We went with base-94 because it avoids UTF-8 overhead in situations where the browser will treat your data as a string (e.g. no t

That's a definite possibility. We went with base-94 because it avoids UTF-8 overhead in situations where the browser will treat your data as a string (e.g. no typed-array support). We also wanted copy/paste to work, and for Flotsam data to be embeddable into JSON with minimal expansion.