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| [[Ascii85]] || Arbitrary || 80% || [http://sites.google.com/site/dannychouinard/Home/unix-linux-trinkets/little-utilities/base64-and-base85-encoding-awk-scripts awk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229031706/http://sites.google.com/site/dannychouinard/Home/unix-linux-trinkets/little-utilities/base64-and-base85-encoding-awk-scripts |date=2014-12-29 }}, [http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/ccic/software/unix/utils/btoa.c C], [https://github.com/woolstar/test/blob/master/encode/asc85.c C (2)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227071331/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/c-implementation-of-ascii85.html C#], [https://web.archive.org/web/20210927102719/http://blog.wezeku.com/2010/07/01/f-ascii85-module/ F#], [https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/ascii85 Go], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035222/http://java.freehep.org/freehep-io/apidocs/org/freehep/util/io/ASCII85.html Java] [https://metacpan.org/pod/Convert::Ascii85 Perl], [https://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html#base64.a85encode Python], [https://web.archive.org/web/20151208205520/https://code.google.com/p/python-mom/source/browse/mom/codec/base85.py Python (2)]|| There exist several variants of this encoding, [[Base85]], [[btoa]], etc.

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| [[Base32]] || Arbitrary || 62.5% || [httphttps://sourceforge.net/projects/cyoencode/ ANSI C], [https://github.com/MHumm/DelphiEncryptionCompendium/blob/master/Source/DECFormat.pas Delphi], [https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/base32 Go], [http://commons.apache.org/codec/ Java], [https://github.com/zanaptak/BinaryToTextEncoding C# F#], [https://docs.python.org/dev/library/base64.html#base64.b32encode Python] || {{space}}

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| [[Base36]] || Integer || data-sort-value="64%"|~64% || bash, [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], Visual Basic, [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]], many others

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| [[Base62]] || Arbitrary || ~74% || [https://github.com/fbernier/base62 Rust], [https://pypi.org/project/pybase62/ Python]|| Similar to Base64, but contains only alphanumeric characters.

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| [[Base64]] || Arbitrary || 75% || [http://sites.google.com/site/dannychouinard/Home/unix-linux-trinkets/little-utilities/base64-and-base85-encoding-awk-scripts awk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229031706/http://sites.google.com/site/dannychouinard/Home/unix-linux-trinkets/little-utilities/base64-and-base85-encoding-awk-scripts |date=2014-12-29 }}, [httphttps://base64.sourceforge.net/ C], [http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ C (2)], [https://github.com/MHumm/DelphiEncryptionCompendium/blob/master/Source/DECFormat.pas Delphi], [https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/base64 Go], [https://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html#base64.b64encode Python], many others || An early and still-popular encoding, first specified as part of {{IETF RFC|989}} in 1987

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| [[Base85]] || Arbitrary || 80% ||[https://github.com/woolstar/test/blob/master/encode/base85.c C], [https://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html#base64.b85encode Python], [https://code.google.com/p/python-mom/source/browse/mom/codec/base85.py Python (2)]

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| [[Hexadecimal#Base16 (transfer encoding)|Hexadecimal]] (Base16) || Arbitrary || 50% || Most languages || Exists in [[uppercase]] and [[Letter case#All lowercase|lowercase]] variants

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| [[Intel HEX]] || Arbitrary || data-sort-value="50%"|≲50% || [https://github.com/vsergeev/libGIS C library], [httphttps://srecord.sourceforge.net/ C++] || Typically used to program [[EPROM]], [[Flash memory|NOR flash]] memory chips

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| [[MIME]] || Arbitrary || See [[Quoted-printable]] and [[Base64]] || See [[Quoted-printable]] and [[Base64]] || Encoding container for e-mail-like formatting

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| [[Quoted-printable]] || Text || data-sort-value="33%"|~33–100%{{efn|1= One byte stored as =XX. Encoding all but the 94 characters which don't need it (incl. space and tab).}} || Probably many || Preserves line breaks; cuts lines at 76 characters

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| [[S-record]] (Motorola hex) || Arbitrary || 49.6% || [https://github.com/vsergeev/libGIS C library], [httphttps://srecord.sourceforge.net/ C++] || Typically used to program [[EPROM]], [[Flash memory|NOR flash]] memory chips. 49.6% assumes 255 binary bytes per record.

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| [[Tektronix hex]] || Arbitrary || || || Typically used to program [[EPROM]], [[Flash memory|NOR flash]] memory chips.

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|[https://github.com/bchainhub/txms.js#readme TxMS]

|Arbitrary

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|[https://github.com/bchainhub/txms.js TypeScript, CLI], [https://github.com/bchainhub/flutter_txms Dart]

|TxMS compresses binary data into a readable text format using Binary-to-Text encoding and allows reversible conversion back to hexadecimal.

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| [[Uuencoding]] || Arbitrary || data-sort-value="60%"|~60% ([[Uuencoding#Disadvantages|up to 70%]]) || [[Uuencoding#Perl|Perl]], [http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ C], [https://github.com/MHumm/DelphiEncryptionCompendium/blob/master/Source/DECFormat.pas Delphi], [https://github.com/frohoff/jdk8u-dev-jdk/blob/master/src/share/classes/sun/misc/UUEncoder.java Java], [https://docs.python.org/3/library/uu.html Python], probably many others || An early encoding developed in 1980 for [[Unix-to-Unix Copy]]. Largely replaced by MIME and [[yEnc]]