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Re: base64-encoding-region does not work on multibyte character
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: base64-encoding-region does not work on multibyte character |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:43:52 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> I get error "Multibyte character in data for base64 encoding" when I
> try to base64 encoding some utf-8 text.
base64 is an encoding which applies to *bytes*, not chars. So you first
need to encode your sequence of chars into a sequence of bytes using
some coding-system. I.e. apply `encode-coding-string/region'.
And after that, you can use base64-encode-string/region.
Stefan