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Base64 Encoding

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encodes and decodes data in Base64 format

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Base64 is an encoding that allows to encode a sequence of arbitrary
bytes as a sequence of printable ASCII characters. For the definition
of Base64, see <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1421.txt">RFC 
1421</ulink> or <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt">RFC
2045</ulink>. Base64 is most commonly used as a MIME transfer encoding
for email.
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GLib supports incremental encoding using g_base64_encode_step() and
g_base64_encode_close(). Incremental decoding can be done with
g_base64_decode_step() and g_base64_decode_close(). To encode or
decode data in one go, use g_base64_encode() of g_base64_decode(). 
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Support for Base64 encoding has been added in GLib 2.12.
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