[Python-Dev] Base-96

[Josiah Carlson]

The standard high-bit-density encoding past base-64 is base-85
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85), which encodes 4 binary bytes
as 5 ascii bytes, versus 3 binary bytes as 4 ascii bytes.  It works,
is an RFC somewhere, ... and maybe should find it's way into the
Python standard library's codec package at some point.

 - Josiah

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Kless <jonas.esp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's true, I didn't pay attention to that.
>
> So the next encoding possible would of base-128 (7-bits encoding),
> althought I don't know if were possible since that there would than
> use non-printable characters and could change the text (by use of
> chars. as Backspace or Delete).
>
> On 2 ago, 03:21, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> 96 is approximately 2^6.585
>>
>> For some reason, integral powers of two seem so much more, well,
>> POWERFUL, if you know what I mean. Frankly I think you are being either
>> optimistic or charitable in suggesting that such a use case might exist.
>>
>> There's a reason that DEC called their equivalent of base64 "6-bit
>> encoding".
>>
>> But then I wanted to keep integer division as it was, so I am clearly a
>> techno-luddite. If the world wants fractional bits I'm sure it's only a
>> matter of time before some genius decides to design a 67.9-bit computer.
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