Comment on Why did base64 win against uuencode?parentComments−afiori2yall three symbols are some of the worst possible choices for compatibility with urls and many other things.-_ would have been a better choice tha +/=−caf2ybase64 is older than URLs, though.
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all three symbols are some of the worst possible choices for compatibility with urls and many other things
.-_ would have been a better choice tha +/=
base64 is older than URLs, though.