Pat Thoyts wrote:
>  This would be better handled using channels I think. The plan here is to
>  provide a fast encoding primitive that can be used with [chan create] to
>  create an encoding channel layer. Just providing a channel would be
>  limiting, providing a command for use in script-based channels seems
>  more general. I think this requires TIP 230 but I don't think thats
>  likely to be rejected.

I agree with this. There are a number of cases that we know about where
base64 data needs to be encoded to or decoded from strings. For example,
it's fairly common to have base64-encoded data in XML documents, and
embedding of encoded images for things like the plugin is another case;
there was reasonable consensus recently that the magic that Tk's GIF
loader does is nasty.

Donal.

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