On Tue, Jun 14, 2016, at 22:58, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > The RFC is unclear on this point, but I read it as specifying the > ASCII coded character set, not the ASCII repertoire of (abstract) > characters. Therefore, it specifies an invertible mapping from a > particular set of integers to characters.
There are multiple descriptions of base 64 that specifically mention using it with EBCDIC and with local character sets of unspecified nature. > > The intention is clearly to represent binary data as *text*. > > It's more subtle than that. *RFCs do not deal with text.* Text is > an internal concept of (some) programming environments. It's also a human concept. Plenty of RFCs deal with human concept rather than purely programming topics. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
