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i have recently implemented base64 in oberon.
— https://github.com/norayr/base64
but only the encoding part.
i needed to encode passwords for http baseauth method, and add encoded username and password in to http request headers.
that was my usecase.
May 01 · 12 days ago
Oh I get the need for base64 or base26 generally; I just don’t see that base26 specifically offers features base64 doesn’t, apart from a few edge cases?
by the way there is similar similar to base64 algorithm used in oberon system. there were commands AsciiCoder.Decode and AsciiCoder.Encode and several files could be archived in such archives. if i remember correctly the arche extensin is .Arc but has nothing to do with the .arc we know from dos times.
♊️ pollux [OP] · May 02 at 13:29:
@requiem - exactly, a few edge cases makes base26 useful, compared to base64. No errors when using it for Fax/OCR and the Diana Cryptosystem, or Dein Star, when speaking a foreign language.
base26 — I find base26 pretty cool, compared to, for example, base16, base32, base64 etc. Why? Check out the README, to get an idea. Not to mention useful for Telefax/OCR as well.