Comment by greenshackle2
6 years ago
Yes, I understand. But base64 is the bog standard solution for encoding arbitrary binary data as printable characters.
So I'm just wondering why you would use something more obscure, less space efficient, and not ascii compatible.
Because it will impress uneducated people with how much smaller (in terms of screen real estate) the resulting message is.
EDIT: Ohhh, I know, and because twitter cares about characters. So you can use this to put essays into tweets.