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1 | This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable |
| 2 | encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 - | |
| 3 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of | |
| 6 | octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character | |
| 7 | subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be | |
| 8 | represented per printable character. | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that | |
| 11 | largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in | |
| 12 | the ASCII character set. Each non-printable character is represented by | |
| 13 | a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal | |
| 14 | digits. | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version | |
| 17 | 5.6 or better. Installation as usual: | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | perl Makefile.PL | |
| 20 | make | |
| 21 | make test | |
| 22 | make install | |
| 23 | ||
| 719245bd | 24 | Copyright 1995-1999,2001-2004,2010 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com> |
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| 26 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | |
| 27 | modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. |