On: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

[sokoloff]

Why not use base-31 and (optionally) more characters? (Or go upper and lower or add a symbol if you had to stay with a fixed-size and base-32 for some reason)

[chipsa → sokoloff]

Because Base32 is just bit shifting and then converting the 5 bits into a char, and vice versa. Doing Base31 requires base conversion.