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Subject: Re: base64.b64encode(data)
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:36:06 -0400, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>
>Sure. But let's not pretend that U+0020 through U+007E *aren't* unicode
>characters. Base 64's output is characters. Those characters could be
>encoded as ASCII, as UTF-32, as EBCDIC, and they would still be the same
>characters.
>
	But, as mentioned, ASCII and (to a lesser extant) EBCDIC are 1-byte per
character encodings, and are safe on 8-bit transports (ASCII on 7-bit!)
since no single byte of BASE64 would appear as any sort of control
character... The transport could include a stage punching a paper tape
which is manually moved to another system for reading.
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