On 6 February 2013 09:06, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > As far as I can tell, it never fails, but silently ignores characters > outside the alphabet [A-Za-z0-9+/]
This bit at least is required behaviour: see RFC2045 section 6.8: Any characters outside of the base64 alphabet are to be ignored in base64-encoded data. (thanks to Tony Finch for pointing that one out to me.) -- PMM
