LinusU / LinusU/base32-decode

01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14P does not round trip between base32-decode and base32-encode

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Description

`01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14P` is a valid base32 encoded string and a base32 string should round trip between `b32decode` and `b32encode` to the same value. It doesn't. The `crockford-base32` package does the round trip correctly.

```js
import b32decode from 'base32-decode';
import b32encode from 'base32-encode';
import { CrockfordBase32 } from 'crockford-base32';

const uid = '01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14P';

const buffer = CrockfordBase32.decode(uid);
console.log('decoded', new Uint8Array(buffer).toString());
const res = CrockfordBase32.encode(buffer);
console.log('encoded', res);

const decoded = b32decode(uid, 'Crockford');
console.log('DECODED', new Uint8Array(decoded).toString());
const encoded = b32encode(decoded, 'Crockford');
console.log('ENCODED', encoded);
```

Result:
```
decoded 1,127,218,52,165,40,65,75,156,139,208,39,108,77,4,150
encoded 01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14P
DECODED 0,95,246,141,41,74,16,82,231,34,244,9,219,19,65,37
ENCODED 01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14M
```

Run it on stackblitz:
https://stackblitz.com/edit/js-esmrfr

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Research direction

Reproduce the mismatch using the `base32-decode` and `base32-encode` imports with the provided UID, then inspect their Crockford variant handling. Compare the decoded bytes and encoded result with `crockford-base32`; done means the value round trips back to `01FZD39998855SS2YG4XP4T14P`.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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Newbie friendliness
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