How to handle leading 0's (b58 1's) when base58check encoding
Iterate from the beginning until you reach a non-zero byte. Base58 encode the non-zero byte and the following, and add 1s before the base58 string you made for each initial one zero byte (0x00) you counted.
Zero bytes after the first non-zero byte don't need special treatment.
For example, [0, 13, 36], is encoded as 1211 since the value is 1*58^2 and 1 in base58 alphabet is 2. From here, you see that if it's a multiple of 58, no special treatment is needed since the encoding is big endian and the 1s caused by 58's powers are automatically appended to the back