wok-current annotate perl-mime-base64/description.txt @ rev 24238
updated perl-mime-base64 (3.15 -> 3.16)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sun Jan 02 07:16:25 2022 +0100 (2022-01-02) |
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Hans-G?nter@24238 | 1 This module provides functions to encode and decode strings into and from |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 2 the base64 encoding specified in RFC 2045 - MIME |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 3 (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 4 The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of octets |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 5 in a form that need not be humanly readable. |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 6 A 65-character subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits |
Hans-G?nter@24238 | 7 to be represented per printable character. |