Marc Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Why can't you just pre-parse the data parsed to the base64 decoder? I >>> believe that's the correct behaviour. A base64 decoder should decode >>> base64, not "base64 but also it does this extra trick if you wave your >>> hand in the air" > > You could do that, but then the pre-parser needs to know what base64 > character sets looks like, so it's not a very clean abstraction.
I disagree. Base64 is a well documented and understood encoding. Particularly the acceptable characters. A function base64-clean or clean-for-base64 would be better than changing the base64 decoder to accept unstandard characters. > decoder already knows everything it needs to know. It's also likely > that other apps which want to do base64 decoding will want this same > functionality, so repeating it makes little sense. > > But in the end, I don't care strongly if the code is in emacs or in > gnus, as long as it's somewhere. Can you go over again where you had the problem? Was it a particular message from some particular MTA? Or was it something more general? Nic _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
