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Crockford Base32 Definition

A base-32 encoding system that utilizes 32 human-readable characters, omitting the four letters I, L, O, and U to prevent character-reading transcription errors and accidental obscenities (note that SAM.gov Unique Entity IDs omit only the letters I and O).

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  1. Douglas Crockford: Base32 Encoding Specification