Martin v. Löwis wrote: > The point that proponents of "base64 encoding should > yield strings" miss is that US-ASCII is *both* a character set, > and an encoding.
Last time we discussed this, I went and looked at the RFC where base64 is defined. According to my reading of it, nowhere does it say that base64 output must be encoded as US-ASCII, nor any other particular encoding. It *does* say that the characters used were chosen because they are present in a number of different character sets in use at the time, and explicity mentions EBCDIC as one of those character sets. To me this quite clearly says that base64 is defined at the level of characters, not encodings. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
