Collection of various binary data to text encoders
- Python3
- ronn (for creating
manpages)
These encoders are designed to be compatible to the feature-set of base64, which is a progam available on many UNIXoidal systems. Some expand on the default switch set, but should otherwise be compatible.
To decode, these tools support the -d switch.
Convert binary data to an alphabet of eight characters.
Every three bits get encoded into a character.
This technically prints a binary file as octal numbers.
Convery binary data to an alphabet of sixteen characters.
Every four bits (a "nibble") get encoded into a character.
This technially prints a binary file as hexadecimal numbers.
For all intents and purposes, this kinda works a bit like xxd or hexdump,
except it's just the characters, without addresses and/or textual representations, etc.
Convert binary data to an alphabet of thirty two characters.
Every five bits get encoded into a character.
A GNU version of this exists already. I'm doing this primarily as an exercise, to optimize for various encoding bandwidths.
Convert binary data to an alphabet of eighty five characters.
Every four bytes get encoded into five characters. Data is not bit-aligned and is hence taken as 32 bit numbers (big endian) and encoded into a five characters long string, by repeatedly dividing by 85 and taking their reminders, respectively.
This version supports three different alphabets.
These encoders are designed to be compatible to the feature-set of uuencode, which is also available on most UNIXoidal systems.
As with uuencode and uudecode there exist two version of each, one for encoding and one for decoding.
Encode files into XXencoding, which is similar, but not equal to UUencode.