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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex b/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex index a59332b..bede708 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libbase64.tex @@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ This module performs base64 encoding and decoding of arbitrary binary strings into text strings that can be safely emailed or posted. The -encoding scheme is defined in \rfc{1421} (``Privacy Enhancement for -Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and -Authentication Procedures'', section 4.3.2.4, ``Step 4: Printable -Encoding'') and is used for MIME email and -various other Internet-related applications; it is not the same as the -output produced by the \program{uuencode} program. For example, the -string \code{'www.python.org'} is encoded as the string -\code{'d3d3LnB5dGhvbi5vcmc=\e n'}. +encoding scheme is defined in \rfc{1521} (\emph{MIME +(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for +Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies}, +section 5.2, ``Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding'') and is used for +MIME email and various other Internet-related applications; it is not +the same as the output produced by the \program{uuencode} program. +For example, the string \code{'www.python.org'} is encoded as the +string \code{'d3d3LnB5dGhvbi5vcmc=\e n'}. \begin{funcdesc}{decode}{input, output} @@ -52,4 +52,9 @@ base64 encoded data. \begin{seealso} \seemodule{binascii}{support module containing \ASCII{}-to-binary and binary-to-\ASCII{} conversions} + \seetext{Internet \rfc{1521}, \emph{MIME (Multipurpose Internet + Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and + Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies}, section + 5.2, ``Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding,'' provides the + definition of the base64 encoding.} \end{seealso} |