diff --git a/src/ckdb.h b/src/ckdb.h
index 83e913e1..6d680eb3 100644
--- a/src/ckdb.h
+++ b/src/ckdb.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 1995-2014 Andrew Smith
+ * Copyright 1995-2015 Andrew Smith
  * Copyright 2014 Con Kolivas
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 #define DB_VLOCK "1"
 #define DB_VERSION "0.9.6"
-#define CKDB_VERSION DB_VERSION"-0.820"
+#define CKDB_VERSION DB_VERSION"-0.821"
 
 #define WHERE_FFL " - from %s %s() line %d"
 #define WHERE_FFL_HERE __FILE__, __func__, __LINE__
diff --git a/src/ckdb_data.c b/src/ckdb_data.c
index 57a0426b..85bb5c67 100644
--- a/src/ckdb_data.c
+++ b/src/ckdb_data.c
@@ -2870,7 +2870,7 @@ bool _marks_description(char *description, size_t siz, char *marktype,
 #define CODEBASE 32
 #define CODESHIFT(_x) ((_x) >> 5)
 #define CODECHAR(_x) (codebase[((_x) & (CODEBASE-1))])
-static char codebase[] = "2a3b4c5d6e7f8g9hjklmnpqrstuvwxyz";
+static char codebase[] = "23456789abcdefghjkmnopqrstuvwxyz";
 
 #define ASSERT3(condition) __maybe_unused static char codebase_length_must_be_CODEBASE[(condition)?1:-1]
 ASSERT3(sizeof(codebase) == (CODEBASE+1));