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Author	taleinat
Recipients	mark.dickinson, taleinat
Date	2018-09-20.05:42:16
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Message-id	<1537422137.2.0.956365154283.issue34736@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I welcome suggestions for improvement! We could either find a better error message covering all cases, or emit a more specific message when non-base64 characters have been skipped. Unfortunately, skipping non-base64 characters is a basic assumption of a2b_base64 which is used under the hood, and it currently provides no indication whether such characters are skipped, and if so how many. Also, it is common in some contexts to have line breaks in base64-encoded data, which are skipped when decoding.

I welcome suggestions for improvement!

We could either find a better error message covering all cases, or emit a more specific message when non-base64 characters have been skipped.

Unfortunately, skipping non-base64 characters is a basic assumption of a2b_base64 which is used under the hood, and it currently provides no indication whether such characters are skipped, and if so how many.  Also, it is common in some contexts to have line breaks in base64-encoded data, which are skipped when decoding.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-09-20 05:42:17	taleinat	set	recipients: + taleinat, mark.dickinson
2018-09-20 05:42:17	taleinat	set	messageid: <1537422137.2.0.956365154283.issue34736@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2018-09-20 05:42:17	taleinat	link	issue34736 messages
2018-09-20 05:42:16	taleinat	create