Base 256 Braille

A way for wasting more memory when encoding binary in characters, but is more aesthetically pleasing! The UTF-8 Braille block is perfect for Base 256, but is using 3 bytes per character, so this will use more memory. Compared to base16/hex encoding is using 150% more memory. But this is using half of the screen space compared to base16/hex encoding.

Motivation

I don't like the fact that base32, base64 needs to be padded. The base16/hex notation is using to much screen space. I like the fact that in this use case braille is actually a binary representation.

Example

This is how a 32 bytes array looks in multiples codecs.

Reference implementation

def to_base256(data):
    out = ""
    for b in data:
        out += chr(b + 0x2800)
    return out

def from_base256(text):
    out = []
    for c in text:
        out.append(ord(c) - 0x2800)
    return out