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@Floppy@mastodon.me.ukAnyone know a standard encoding scheme for binary data to alphabetical strings using only lowercase consonants?
I want to generate non-numeric IDs but avoid making real words, so cutting out the vowels seems the the best approach.
I could just make something up like convert it to hex, and then make b=0, c=1, d=2, f=3, g=4 etc, but is there anything standard?
EDIT: We have a winner, @pbarker pointed me at https://sqids.org which will do the job nicely!
@Floppy a previous website I worked on had article ids that included both forward slashes and the prefix "art".
These were sometimes encoded into url parameters.
Some customers wondered why their urls contained farts: `...%2fart...`
and this is why I'm throwing away vowels :)
@Floppy but remember… the fly pygmy lynx in the crypt has syzygy rhythm
@Floppy tsktsk… hmm… cwtch!
@gilesdring easy for you to say.
@floppy @pbarker Seen the edit, but just for (potential) interest I used crockford’s base32 on theatricalia: https://github.com/dracos/Theatricalia/blob/master/utils.py