Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Bengt,

Bengt Richter 写道：
> BTW, how did nix get such a weird alphabet for 0-31 ? 
> Watermarking themselves? :)

This question probably deserves a Nix FAQ entry by now, if there 
isn't one already :-)

 “This is to reduce the possibility that hash representations 
 contain character sequences that are potentially offensive to 
 someusers (a known possibility with alphanumeric representations 
 of numbers).”
   -- https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf

Excercises for the puerile reader are obvious.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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