by Brendan Silva
Version 4 (April 22, 2025)
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This flowchart provides two compression (encoding) methods:
⒈ Basic/US-ASCII (64 characters): The compression ratio is 1.5, resulting in a space gain of up to 33%. This method can save slightly more space than the Automate "base64Encode" function, which always expects and outputs UTF-8 text.
⒉ Extended/ISO-LATIN-1 (128 characters): The compression ratio is 1.75, giving a space gain of approximately 43%. To ensure effective space savings, always use "CP-1252" or "DOS West European" encodings when saving compressed text to a file.
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Leading zero characters will always be ignored, but you can avoid this issue by adding a non-zero header to the input string.
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