Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Martin> For an example where base64 is *not* necessarily > Martin> ASCII-encoded, see the "binary" data type in XML > Martin> Schema. There, base64 is embedded into an XML document, > Martin> and uses the encoding of the entire XML document. As a > Martin> result, you may get base64 data in utf16le. > > I'll have to take a look. It depends on whether base64 is specified > as an octet-stream to Unicode stream transformation or as an embedding > of an intermediate representation into Unicode. Granted, defining the > base64 alphabet as a subset of Unicode seems like the logical way to > do it in the context of XML.
Please do take a look. It is the only way: If you were to embed base64 *bytes* into character data content of an XML element, the resulting XML file might not be well-formed anymore (if the encoding of the XML file is not an ASCII superencoding). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
