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Re:Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a mem... by wingi on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:09AM (#21460370)
Why use 6-bit data, if JSON can transport 8-bit (-1 for quoting the ") ?
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Re:Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a mem... by cryptonector on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:14AM (#21460391)
Byte values that are ASCII control characters need to be escaped, and byte values that are not valid UTF-8 can't be represented in JSON strings.
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Re:Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a mem... by Vrixam on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:16AM (#21460398)
Would this always be valid UTF8?
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