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Re: base64-encode-string confusion
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: base64-encode-string confusion |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:18 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> So here I guess multibyte != non-ascii ? The actual problem I am
> facing is base64-encode-string doesn't support non-ascii characters,
base64 is a way to encode a *byte sequence* in a way that is "email
safe". I.e. it does not accept any characters: only bytes.
If you want to encode a char sequence using base64, you first need to
convert your char sequence into a byte sequence, using
encode-coding-string.
Stefan