Ascii85
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 85 printable characters
Summary
Ascii85, also called Base85, is a binary-to-text encoding developed by Paul E. Rutter for the btoa utility. By using five ASCII characters to represent four bytes of binary data, it is more efficient than uuencode or Base64, which use four characters to represent three bytes of data.
Originally created by 130.64.24.245
3/2/2005, 10:15:25 PM
Modified
3/27/2026, 12:01:36 PM
Recent revisions
added [[Category:Positional numeral systems]] using [[WP:HC|HotCat]]
/* btoa version */
avoid jargon in the short desc
/* See also */ use annotated link
It is a binary-to-text encoding ... 'form of' is fluff
/* External links */ HTTP to HTTPS for [[SourceForge]]
endoded→encoded - [[toolforge:typos]]
To be honest with you I’m not sure why 256^4 is used instead of 2^32 to me it makes the data make more
/* Example for Ascii85 */
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/* See also */
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/* Example for Ascii85 */ account for those <~/~> prefixes/postfixes actual programs will likely spit out, in case people are verifying this (like me!)
/* Adobe version */
Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/121.200.52.146|121.200.52.146]] ([[User talk:121.200.52.146|talk]]) ([[WP:AntiVandal|AV]])
/* Example for Ascii85 */
/* Example for Ascii85 */ [[MOS:CAPS]]
