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Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding

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Subject Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn expressed precisely :
> Jupi wrote:
> ^^^^
> Your real name belongs there.

Mr. Jupi Krem

>> I need to encode string using Central European Windows-1250 encoding.
>
> Why?

Because I need it.

>> I know how to use simple base64 but it is utf-8 encoded and I need
>> windows-1250.
>
> Base64 is a transfer encoding.  UTF-8 and Windows-1250 are character 
> encodings.  They have nothing to do with each other.
>
> One uses character encodings to encode code points of characters of 
> character sets.
>
> One uses a transfer encoding to transfer (character) codes that cannot be 
> handled verbatim by a protocol or network connection.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64>

I do not understand all this. I just need to encode some string which 
contains Easteuropean characters to base64 string. Curently, when I 
encode string, it is encoded using utf-8.
Thank you.

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Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-08 16:21 +0200
  Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-08 20:26 +0200
    Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-08 22:09 +0200
      Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-08 22:57 +0200
    Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 07:02 +0200
      Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 09:25 +0200
        Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 09:52 +0200
          Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 10:12 +0200
            Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:25 +0200
        Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 09:53 +0200
          Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:01 +0200
            Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 10:17 +0200
              Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:32 +0200
          Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:02 +0200
            Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 10:20 +0200
              Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:29 +0200
                Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-06-09 12:07 +0200
      Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-06-09 09:30 +0200
        Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 09:55 +0200
          Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2018-06-09 13:11 +0200
        Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Frank Kozuschnik <franko@nurfuerspam.de> - 2018-06-09 12:45 +0200
          Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 13:13 +0200
            Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Mickey Finn <mfinn@gmail.com> - 2018-06-14 19:22 -0300
  Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2018-06-09 12:30 +0200
    Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Jupi Krem <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 13:14 +0200
    Re: Base64 encode using using windows-1250 encoding Yappi <nomail@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 13:33 +0200

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