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).
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.
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
16 In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
17 5.6 or better. Installation as usual:
24 Copyright 1995-1999,2001-2004 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
26 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
27 modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.