We are looking for a way to base32 encode some fields on a form. Has anyone found a tool that does this?
Subject: base32 - why?
A Notes document, or even a Notes field, is not a simple object whose direct binary representation will make sense to an outside program. You have to specify more than the encoding scheme you plan to apply to the binary; you also have to talk about the desired format of the binary before you encode it. Even if it’s just text, you have to mention what character set you mean to use and whether you mean to have a length tag or a null terminator.
The base32 encoding algorithm is not very complex, and I’m sure you could easily code it up in LotusScript or Java, taking a binary Stream object as input (NotesStream if LotusScript). That’s the easy part. Coming up with the binary you want to encode is going to be more involved.
Subject: user requirement
Another application picks up our data, and wants it base32 encoded.