Alphanumeric vs Byte Encoding Mode

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Alphanumeric mode (5.5 bits/char) is limited to uppercase, digits, and 9 symbols. Byte mode (8 bits/char) supports the full ISO 8859-1 character set including lowercase. Most URLs use byte mode due to lowercase characters.

  



  
  

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