Re: [Monotone-devel] Proposal for human readable revision IDs

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:17:32AM +0200, Thomas Haas wrote:

> Using the alphabet (A-Z, a-z) and the ten digits would reduce the real
> estate from 40 to 27 characters.

Or all or most of the 94 or so ASCII printable characters.

Using Japanese characters would reduce it even more.

Or the entire set of Unicode printable characters!  This might be *very*
good as a display representation, each ID would look *very* distinctive.
Believe me.  You might not know what to *call* a character, but you're not
likely to confuse a Georgian character with a Japanese or Sanskrit one.

You would need some way to get your display to give you a typable one
when you need it, but that might be a separate issue.

-- hendrik