Storing string is expensive on smart-contracts and charge us expensive fees even if we want to store them in Events. Instead I want to store each string's decoded version in a smart-contract in order to save some memory and gas-fee charge. Overall, when I return string's decoded version, it also should be able to decoded into the original string.

As an example I want to pass my string as compressing base64 input format and its code. But when I stored compressed base64 string on a smart-contract, its returned version is not same as the one I passed.

Example example.js:

var Base64String = require('./base64-string');

var string = "QmWmyoMoctfbAaiEs2G46gpeUmhqFRDW6KWo64y5r581Vm";
console.log("Size of sample is: " + string.length);
var compressed = Base64String.compress(string);
console.log("compressed:" + compressed)
console.log("Size of compressed sample is: " + compressed.length);
string = Base64String.decompress(compressed);
console.log("Sample is: " + string);

Results node example.js: //as you can see 46 length string is compressed into 19 length.

Size of sample is: 46
compressed: ł斦쪃⡲ퟛƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨ꖨ릯鼵嗐
Size of compressed sample is: 19
Sample is: QmWmyoMoctfbAaiEs2G46gpeUmhqFRDW6KWo64y5r581VmAA

Passed base64 compressed string: //I want to store it on my smart-contract.

ł斦쪃⡲ퟛƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨ꖨ릯鼵嗐

Contract.set("ł斦쪃⡲ퟛƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨ꖨ릯鼵嗐");

From the smart-contract its returned version seems not same as the string I passed. // Contract.get()

ł斦쪃⡲<d7db>ƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨<a5a8>릯鼵嗐

Overall: "ł斦쪃⡲ퟛƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨ꖨ릯鼵嗐" != "ł斦쪃⡲<d7db>ƨ蒳憸幒桪ᔐ훨<a5a8>릯鼵嗐"

Please note that I have tried this on remix-solidity.

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pragma solidity ^0.4.0;
contract Contract {
    string str;

    function set(string val) public {
        str = val;
    }

    function get() public constant returns (string) {
        return str;
    }
}

[Q] How should I pass compressed base64 string into a smart-contract? or basically what should I do to store my string compressed version on a smart-contract that when I returned it, it should match with the string I passed?

Thank you for your valuable time and help.