please prefer base 64 over base 32 (was: Re: [p2p-hackers] Bitzi (was Various identifier choices))

[Tony Kimball]

Quoth Zooko on Wednesday, 19 September:
: 
: >: I guess we just differ in our value judgements here.  I value shorter ids for
: >: cut-and-paste purposes more than I value absence of "break" characters.
: >: Indeed, I can't really think of a motivating example for caring about "break"
: >: characters.  Could you please suggest one?
: > 
: > command shells.  
: 
: ... in all that I've never noticed break characters or upper/lowercase to be an
: issue.  But I *have* had problems with overly long mojoids being mangled by
: e-mail agents and *really* long ones (> 256 characters) being rejected by MSIE.

okay.  non-starter.  how about search engines?