From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: base64-encoding-region does not work on multibyte character
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:43:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gxogvgz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.716.1333862142.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I get error "Multibyte character in data for base64 encoding" when I
> try to base64 encoding some utf-8 text.
base64 is an encoding which applies to *bytes*, not chars. So you first
need to encode your sequence of chars into a sequence of bytes using
some coding-system. I.e. apply `encode-coding-string/region'.
And after that, you can use base64-encode-string/region.
Stefan
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2012-04-10 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-05-18 3:21 ` base64-encoding-region does not work on multibyte character Moses
2012-04-08 5:15 Moses
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