id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
91	switch to z-base-32	zooko	zooko	"Switch from Python standard library base32 encoding to z-base-32 encoding.

The main advantage is that this eliminates trailing ""="" signs.  See the examples in 

https://zooko.com/repos/z-base-32/base32/DESIGN

Other advantages include that it uses an alphabet and a permutation thereof that make it slightly easier for humans to transcribe correctly, that it can nicely encode a number of bits that is not a multiple of 8, and that it uses lower-case by default.  It also comes with an optimized C implementation, but we're not bothering to use that at this time."	enhancement	closed	blocker	0.5.0	code	0.4.0	fixed