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bug#66698: I think hex decoding with basenc -d --base16 should be case-i


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#66698: I think hex decoding with basenc -d --base16 should be case-insensitive
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:30:39 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 10/23/23 06:08, Pádraig Brady wrote:
However the default operation should be the
most common requirement (and also the RFC documented operation in this case).
A similar case I hit very frequently is pasting hex into bc, and it's
very annoying to have to convert to uppercase before doing this.

Doesn't the isbase16 function also need updating?

Also, shouldn't we do something similar for base 32, for consistency?





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