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Re:Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated by arethuza on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:54AM (#24648874)
"It excludes the letters I, L, and O to avoid confusion with digits. It also excludes the letter U to reduce the likelihood of accidental obscenity."

Excluding ILO doesn't seem a bad idea - but leaving out U for that particular reasons seems downright weird:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#Crockford's_Base32

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Re:Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated by inopinatus on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:39AM (#24649094)
It doesn’t exclude them. Ignore the Wikipedia text, and look at the decoding table instead.
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Re:Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated by arethuza on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:31AM (#24649365)
True - they should be generated during encoding but are allowed during decoding:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021223012947/http://www.crockf...

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Re:Understanding How UUIDs Are Generated by munawwar on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:45AM (#24649436)
base58 avoids 0 as it looks similar to capital O in some fonts. Seems more reasonable than U.
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