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Saturday, 5th March 2022

Why I invented “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths

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Datasette now includes its own custom string encoding scheme, which I’ve called dash encoding. I really didn’t want to have to invent something new here, but unfortunately I think this is the best solution to my very particular problem. Some notes on how dash encoding works and why I created it.

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