From: w_a_x_man <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2010-11-02T05:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Standard Base62 Encoding?

On Nov 1, 1:27 pm, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a standard encoding for base62? I've been using 0..9a..zA..Z,
> but I think I should switch that to 0..9A..Za..z, so it would sort
> properly according to ASCII order. I wasn't able to find anything on a
> standard via a Google search. So maybe there just isn't one?
>
> I was kind of surprised to see Ruby uses lower case a..f for
> hexadecimal rather than uppercase.
>
>   "255.to_s(16)  #=> "ff"

Where is base 62 used?