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| 1 | + | Ascii85, also called Base85, is a form of binary-to-text encoding developed by Paul E. Rutter for the “btoa” utility. By using five ASCII characters to represent four bytes of binary data (making the encoded size ¹⁄₄ larger than the original, assuming eight bits per ASCII character), it is more efficient than uuencode or Base64, which use four characters to represent three bytes of data (¹⁄₃ increase, assuming eight bits per ASCII character). | |
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| 3 | + | Its main modern use is in Adobeʼs PostScript and Portable Document Format file formats. | |
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| 5 | + | ## See Also | |
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| 7 | + | - <https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/ascii85/index.html> | |
| 8 | + | - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85> | |
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| 11 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "ascii85", as it stood on 2022-08-16 after a change by Skalogryz, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 12 | + | Category: FCL | |
| 13 | + | Category: Packages |