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Julius Davies updated CODEC-58:
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Attachment: codec58.patch
Character encoding now mentioned in javadoc. I also added some info about
CODEC-75 (URL-Safe) to the Javadoc.
> 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: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
> Reporter: Pepijn Schmitz
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.x
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> Attachments: codec58.patch
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> 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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