[issue17618] base85 encoding

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> After searching a lot of other implementations of this encoding I
> conclude that there are at least three different variants.

Yes. The current proposal is to include both the Adobe version ("ascii85")
and the Mercurial/Git version ("base85"). btoa/atob seems extinct.

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