Wow. I can't believe that nobody else has pointed out the fact that you are *not* using a base 26 system correctly.
a=0
z=25
In base 26, there will be no single-character representation of the number 26. Just as there is no single-character representation of 10 in base 10, or 2 in binary.
If you want "blank" = 0, a=1, z=26, then you are using base 27.
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