It's not the base64 that's important, it's the structure. You can pick whatever encoding you like, base64 is just very common as a relatively dense but still text-safe one.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:06:25AM -0500, tiger12506 wrote: > Ok. I see. Sorry for the noise. > > > Not sure how storing base64 would help. > > >Namely file size savings and sanity. Instead of all those ridiculous X > >number of hex bytes on each line split with spaces, you have a single > >quoted entry that's a base64ed. > >And you can actually manually edit that, god forbid someone wants to > >do that then. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp