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Posted by Walter Roberson on May 7, 2005, 7:28 pm
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:As far as I know, these characters are inert, in that
:they have no interpretation on must systems or the net.
No interpretation as special control characters, I think you
mean. Not entirely true, in that in Unix systems using the
older traditional "line discipline", _ is a delete character.
:I represent them as a regex: [a-zA-Z0-9_].
:That is 63 characters. To create a base 64 encoding, I
:need one more. Any suggestions?
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/7.htm
Uses [a-zA-Z0-9+/] with = as the pad.
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Oh, to be a Blobel!
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