I was approached yesterday by a friend who asked me if I knew a good way to encode (compress) a string of numbers so that it would be as short as possible, while still perfectly readable by a human.

Anyone have some C# sample code or class to decode/encode base64 data? I'm new to C#, and I thought this sort of thing would be built-in to .NET. Just looking for a black box that will take a b64 ...

What is encoding and decoding in a computer? Encoding and decoding are used in many forms of communications, including computing, data communications, programming, digital electronics and human ...

And upcase('i') doesn't mean what you think it means if you set your locale to Turkish. I don't really see a problem, though: just treat all operation with "bytes" in 'C' locale.

Sometimes, people want to use Unicode to write languages whose orthography has not been blessed by a national standards committee; it is not the job of a bunch of rich industrialized people to tell ...