It's not as complicated as it seems. Sometimes raw bytes are transformed into alphabetic characters to make them easy to communicate, possibly with a small checking value included to prevent typos. But some texts are more convenient to work with on screen, and others to write down.
Then there are the many flavors of transformation.
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npub1wp…hku55
2024-08-11 23:58:08
in reply to nevent1q…7ft3
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npub1wpu33h35ufrnxdhwmy82s3l3nk682xm3whvfxepxsjn24t6dnn8q0hku55Published at
2024-08-11 23:58:08Event JSON
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