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I find base26 pretty cool, compared to, for example, base16, base32, base64 etc. Why? Check out the README, to get an idea. Not to mention useful for Telefax/OCR as well.
https://github.com/stefanclaas/base26
Apr 30 · 4 weeks ago · 👍 norayr
I like it as it seems fun, but in all honesty I don't see how the majority of use cases cannot be achieved through base64? Like, with the "send data in SMS via an old feature phone" - having grown up with those (first mobile phone I used had a single line LCD display - Ericsson GH337 I think?) , even those has all the Base64 characters needed. With OCR and Telefax either is fine really? There are the two specific cases he mentions but in all honesty I have no idea what those are...
i have recently implemented base64 in oberon.
— https://github.com/norayr/base64
but only the encoding part.
i needed to encode passwords for http baseauth method, and add encoded username and password in to http request headers.
that was my usecase.
Oh I get the need for base64 or base26 generally; I just don’t see that base26 specifically offers features base64 doesn’t, apart from a few edge cases?
by the way there is similar similar to base64 algorithm used in oberon system. there were commands AsciiCoder.Decode and AsciiCoder.Encode and several files could be archived in such archives. if i remember correctly the arche extensin is .Arc but has nothing to do with the .arc we know from dos times.
♊️ pollux [OP] · May 02 at 13:29:
@requiem - exactly, a few edge cases makes base26 useful, compared to base64. No errors when using it for Fax/OCR and the Diana Cryptosystem, or Dein Star, when speaking a foreign language.