Ascii85 Encode and Decode

Ascii85 Encoder and Decoder

What is Ascii85 / Base85 ?

Ascii85 / Base85 is a form of binary-to-text encoding used to communicate arbitrary binary data over channels that were designed to carry only ASCII Characters. This type of encoding can produce printable character (note that not all ascii character is printable, like null or 0x00).

If you tried our base64 encoder or base32 encoder, the output from those tools is longer than ascii85, why? It's because ascii85 or base85 has bigger character set than those encodings.

Rule of thumb: look at the number at the name.

So, the following word :

Roger That!

Encoded to Ascii85 notation:

;K$2ZEZe=p@<<Xm