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This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable
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encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 -
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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
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The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of
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octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character
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subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be
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represented per printable character.
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The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that
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largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in
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the ASCII character set. Non-printable characters are represented by
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a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal
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digits.
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The MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint modules used to be part of
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libwww-perl package. They are now distributed separately (this
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package). The main improvement is that the base64 encoder/decoder is
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implemented by XS functions. This makes it about 20 times faster than
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the old implementation in perl.
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