Shorten a GUID from 36 chars to 11 UTF-8 Chars. Inspired by https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1236704/Reducing-the-string-Length-of-a-Guid?msg=5505216#xx5505216xx

Compress-Guid.ps1

function Compress-Guid {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param (
        [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [Guid]$Guid = [Guid]::NewGuid()
    )
    Process {
        Write-Verbose "Received Guid $Guid"
        [string]$GuidJustTheDigits = ($Guid.ToString() -replace '[{}-]','') #actually we don't need to replace {} since PS defaults to hyphens only formatting; but this does no harm / there's not much additional cost.
        Write-Verbose "Just the digits length: $($GuidJustTheDigits.Length)" #32 chars
        Write-Verbose "Just the digits: $GuidJustTheDigits" 
        $CompressedGuid = ($GuidJustTheDigits -split '(.{3})' | ?{$_} | %{'0x{0}' -f $_} | %{32 + [int]$_} | %{[char]$_}) -join ''
        Write-Verbose "Length of Compressed Guid: $($CompressedGuid.Length )" #11 chars
        Write-Verbose "Compressed GUID: $CompressedGuid"
        $CompressedGuid 
    }
}
Compress-Guid -Verbose