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2026-02-13Latest mention
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We also use base32768 encoding in rclone which qntm invented https://github.com/qntm/base32768 https://github.com/qntm/base32768 We use this to store encrypted file names and using base32768 on providers which limit file name length based on utf-16 characters (like OneDrive) makes it so we can store much longer file names.Read the full discussion