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diff --git a/converters/p5-MIME-Base64/DESCR b/converters/p5-MIME-Base64/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7cce3020cc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/p5-MIME-Base64/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable +encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 - +MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). + +The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of +octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character +subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be +represented per printable character. + +The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that +largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in +the ASCII character set. Non-printable characters are represented by +a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal +digits. + +The MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint modules used to be part of +libwww-perl package. They are now distributed separately (this +package). The main improvement is that the base64 encoder/decoder is +implemented by XS functions. This makes it about 20 times faster than +the old implementation in perl. |