I would like to be generating short URLs, but without certain hard to distinguish characters. For example, I would like to avoid using '1', 'l', and 'i'.

Can I just delete the ones I don't want from the mapping array at the end of the shorturl.engine.inc file?

I suppose the proper request to make is to add some configuration so administrators can specify the characters used.

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irakli commented

Sounds good.

Thx

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mgifford
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commented

So that's modifying this function here:

function shorturl_base_encode_mapping() {
  return array(
  'q','l','i','3','O','c','x','a','C','1','r','Y',
  'g','4','2','T','b','j','D','W','Z','B','K','k',
  '0','8','9','X','I','5','N','R','n','Q','U','P',
  'E','m','y','V','p','d','v','w','f','G','7','A',
  'o','s','H','6','F','L','M','e','t','z','u','J',
  'S','h'
  );
}

I'm wondering why it's in this odd format. Why isn't it in alphabetical order? Would be interesting to have config options where this list could be controlled, or perhaps just list it in the settings.php file like suggested using the shorturl_reserved_tokens variable

Limiting characters is also suggested here:
#792440: Lowercase urls

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