Simple ASCII encoding Q w/Java
<p>I have a design idea for the following... In an app for playing solitaire/puzzle games, one of the things to do is to save/load games played from disk...  I would also like to feed saved games into game Applets as args and it will load that way.  There is a deal code (which shuffles the deck), which is in base 36, and in a saved game I have two other data structures with booleans and small integers - less than 36 - all will work as digits in base 36, or using just one case of letters and numerals, and a few punctuation characters as separators in the mix. </p>

<p>I don't know what I am up against in cross-platform ASCII in this case, but I would like to just write and read an ASCII string for a saved game with a set of about 40 ASCII characters.  I would like to be able to paste the same string into a web editor as the arg passed into an applet.  </p>

<p>So the long and short of it is...  I am wondering what I have to do to deal with encoding for this, so this is a good, working cross-platform function (as described above)?  </p>

<p>TIA - Mark</p>
