Re: base32 alphabet rant - rhaaaaa rfc3548

[Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>]

# > There exist multiple base32 alphabets. The two mostly used are
# > "A-Z2-7" (examples in rfc3548) and "0-9A-V" (examples in rfc2938).
# 
# We could update RFC 3548 to add an alternative base32 alphabet, to
# handle this problem.  I have some other pending nits to that document,
# available from <http://josefsson.org/base-encoding/>.

i think the presentation encoding doesn't matter much.  ordering should be by
network encoding, not by the presentation encoding.  the fact that
presentation and network encoding yield different orders is ugly but nonfatal.


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