On 08/03/2010 05:59 PM, Mingli Yuan wrote:
It uses API call to get pageId by the title, and then convert pageId by base 36 to the short url. It is quite simple. To reduce the frequency of API call, a simple cache was used. So far, only Chinese and English were supported.
you should consider base32 http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html
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