> Yes. RFC 1924 specifies a way to convert an IPv6 address to ASCII, by > treating it as 128 bit integer, writing the number in base 85, then > expressing > each base 85 digit as an ASCII character > > btoa and PDFs break up a stream of bytes into ASCII by treating it as 32 > bit > integers (4 bytes become 5 ASCII characters), and (in the case of PDFs) > then > representing last odd 1 to 3 bytes as 2 to 4 ASCII characters. They also > use > a different subset of printable ASCII from RFC 1924 > > Nicholas Clark
Given that, I second RJBS' suggestion of String::Base85 (or perhaps String::Ascii85 for better searchability) Chris
