Output UUID in Go as a short string
<p>Is there a built in way, or reasonably standard package that allows you to convert a standard UUID into a short string that would enable shorter URL's?</p>

<p>I.e. taking advantage of using a larger range of characters such as <code>[A-Za-z0-9]</code> to output a shorter string.</p>

<p>I know we can use base64 to encode the bytes, as follows, but I'm after something that creates a string that looks like a "word", i.e. no <code>+</code> and <code>/</code>:</p>

<pre><code>id = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(myUuid.Bytes())
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