Character set used by Base64 not documented
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Key: CODEC-58
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-58
Project: Commons Codec
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.4
Reporter: Pepijn Schmitz
Priority: Minor
The Javadoc for the Base64 class does not document which character set is
returned by encode() and expected by decode(). The RFC specifies "characters",
not "bytes" as the result of the encoding, and yet Base64 returns bytes. It
should provide complete information as to how to convert these bytes to and
from Strings. I assume the character set used is ASCII, but that should be made
explicit in the Javadoc.
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