On 3 ago, 00:33, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote: > seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base-85 > for something more practical In this thread [1] --a mirror group of python-dev mailing list-- where I sent the same post, has been named too that enconding way. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/python-dev2/browse_thread/thread/c843ecf222948167