Re: base64-encode-string confusion

["İsmail Dönmez" <ismail@namtrac.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 16:49, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> 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.

Ah that makes sense indeed, thanks for the pointer.

Regards,
ismail

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