Le Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:55:26 -0400, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/25/2013 01:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:19:36 +0200 Lennart Regebro > > <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull > >> <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > >>> RFC 4648 repeatedly refers to *characters*, without specifying an > >>> encoding for them. > > [...] > >> > >> Base64 is an encoding that transforms between 8-bit streams. > > > > No, it isn't. What Stephen wrote above. > > Stephen was incorrect: the base64 standard is about encoding a binary > stream (8-bit bites) onto another binary stream (6-bit bytes), but one > which can be safely transmitted over a 7-bit-only medium.
So where does the RFC talk about "6-bit bytes" at all? Or did you just invent it? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
