Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks agoMother fuckers just base 58 that shit.
I’m assuming that this is the point you’re making, but just to clarify:
The most widely used[citation needed] base32 alphabet is defined in RFC 4648 §6 and the earlier RFC 3548 (2003). The scheme was originally designed in 2000 by John Myers for SASL/GSSAPI.[2] It uses an alphabet of A–Z, followed by 2–7. The digits 0, 1 and 8 are skipped due to their similarity with the letters O, I and B (thus “2” has a decimal value of 26).
This is generally considered to be a preferable encoding for things like this.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah…
I didn’t mean RFC Base32.
I meant human-safe alphabets.
Base58 or Crockford Base32 (which is distinct from “base 32”) that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1.
RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.