Why is base128 not used? [closed]

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The problem is that at least 32 characters of the ASCII character set are ‘control characters’ which may be interpreted by the receiving terminal. E.g., there’s the BEL (bell) character that makes the receiving terminal chime. There’s the SOT (Start Of Transmission) and EOT (End Of Transmission) characters which performs exactly what their names imply. And don’t forget the characters CR and LF, which may have special meanings in how data structures are serialized/flattened into a stream.

Adobe created the Base85 encoding to use more characters in the ASCII character set, but AFAIK it’s protected by patents.

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