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@AnarchistHoneybun AnarchistHoneybun commented Sep 27, 2025

Add support for Base58 encoding to basenc for consistency with GNU coreutils 9.8. Base58 uses the alphabet '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz' which excludes visually ambiguous characters (0, O, I, l).

Resolves #8744.

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Merging #8751 will not alter performance

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@cakebaker could you review these changes, I can't figure out how to fix the failing CI, like what exactly is it failing for?

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The spell error is easy to fix. Just ignore it on the top of the file.

Add support for Base58 encoding to basenc as per GNU coreutils 9.8.
Base58 uses the alphabet '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
which excludes visually ambiguous characters (0, O, I, l).

Resolves issue uutils#8744.
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Skipping an intermittent issue tests/tail/overlay-headers (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)

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please fix the rest of the errors :)

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please fix the rest of the errors :)

Yes sorry been a little busy with class work, I'll have it done today

AnarchistHoneybun and others added 2 commits October 3, 2025 01:03
Fix explicit iteration clippy warnings. Add Base58 alphabet to spell-checker ignore list to resolve cspell errors.
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GNU testsuite comparison:

Skipping an intermittent issue tests/misc/tee (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)
Skipping an intermittent issue tests/timeout/timeout (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)

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GNU testsuite comparison:

Skipping an intermittent issue tests/timeout/timeout (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)

@sylvestre sylvestre merged commit e16ce60 into uutils:main Oct 5, 2025
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basenc: implement --base58
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