Re: emacs-25 b6b47AF: Properly encode/decode base64Binary data in SOAP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:02:48 +0100
> 
> On the server side, debbugs.gnu.org, a perl script using SOAP::Lite is
> responsible for encoding the attributes. IIUC, the internal package
> SOAP::Serializer decides depending on the contents of a string, whether
> it shall be xsd:base64Binary, or not. See:
> 
>     $self->typelookup({
>            'base64Binary' =>
>               [10, sub {$_[0] =~ /[^\x09\x0a\x0d\x20-\x7f]/ }, 
> 'as_base64Binary'],

That doesn't look right: it disallows UTF-8 encoded text in a document
whose encoding is announced to be UTF-8.  But I guess we won't be able
to change that.