At 05:25 PM 10/2/01 -0700, Gordon Mohr wrote:
>There are multiple Base32 alphabets floating about
>in Internet-Drafts. For example,
>
>ABCDEFGHIJK MN PQRSTUVWXYZ 23456789
>in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-dude-02.txt
>
>and
>
>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 234567
>in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-josefsson-base-encoding-02.txt
>
>Is there any officious IETF document or statement favoring
>one or the other Base32 alphabet for new work?
Also,
BASE32DIGIT = DIGIT
/ "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F" / "G" / "H"
/ "I" / "J" / "K" / "L" / "M" / "N" / "O" / "P"
/ "Q" / "R" / "S" / "T" / "U" / "V"
in RFC 2938. (I won't claim this is the best possible arrangement, or in
any way an official preference; it just seemed to be an easy way at the
time, kind of like an extension of hexadecimal. Hand transcription was not
a significant requirement here.)
#g
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