I was checking out https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini.rb#L152 It has: TODO: Add support for other encodings
So, I googled a bit and found this: http://base91.sourceforge.net/ On initial investigation, this seems a pretty good alternative to base64 I feel this might be of good value to a lot of developers. If you guys feel the same way, I will be more than happy to get started on this. Thank you. Regards, Sushruth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.