On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 14:34:35 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
:>There's an ambiguity. If you don't know whether your base64 is represented :>in ASCII or EBCDIC, suppose it contains the character at code point x'4E'. :>You don't know whether that's an EBCDIC '+' or ASCII 'N'. It matters. It is the character set of the platform. The base64 source is supposed to be transmitted as text so whichever platform receives it expects 'A' to be 'A' in their character set. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
