Le Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:55:26 -0400, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> a écrit :
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On 04/25/2013 01:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:19:36 +0200 Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
RFC 4648 repeatedly refers to *characters*, without specifying an encoding for them. [...]
Base64 is an encoding that transforms between 8-bit streams.
No, it isn't. What Stephen wrote above.
Stephen was incorrect: the base64 standard is about encoding a binary stream (8-bit bites) onto another binary stream (6-bit bytes), but one which can be safely transmitted over a 7-bit-only medium.
So where does the RFC talk about "6-bit bytes" at all? Or did you just invent it?