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Joerg Schaible commented on CODEC-59:
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As explained in CODEC-58 the term character refers 8-bit values in the RFC and
16-bit values in Java. The encoding can never receive a String, since it has no
idea about the encoding of the String and the algorithm encodes arbitrary
bytes. Same applies to the result of a decoding. The result of an encoding and
the input of the decoding could be Strings in ASCII encoding.
> Add methods to Base64 which work with String instead of byte[]
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> Key: CODEC-59
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-59
> Project: Commons Codec
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Pepijn Schmitz
> Priority: Minor
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> It would be great if the Base64 class had String encode(byte[]) and byte[]
> decode(String) methods. The RFC is stated in terms of "characters" for the
> encoding, so there should be no problem with unwarranted assumptions with
> this. Currently everyone is having to convert to and from Strings themselves.
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