Andrew Robert schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > I am in the process of creating a file transmit/receiver program using > MQSeries. > > The way it works is through creation of an XML message. > > Elements within the XML message contain things such as file name, size, > and the file contents. > > The file contents are encoded, currently using Base64, for support of > both binary and text data. > > This works great but there is a small rub to the problem. > > I would like to be able to view the contents of the file if it is text > while still maintaining the ability to transmit binary data. > > Does anyone know of an encoding format that would make this possible? > [...]
Yes. You could use the Quoted-Printable encoding. See RFC 2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2045.txt> Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list