- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:34:22 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 8/25/10 9:37 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Note that this issue means that using atob or btoa for dealing with > > this is a huge pain if non-ASCII chars are involved, since those take > > and return byte arrays masquerading as JS strings, not actual Unicode > > strings. > > Of course I can't find any actual spec for atob/btoa. I would think it > needs to be part of the Window spec, no? On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > I've written a provisional spec for window.atob() and window.btoa(): > > http://aryeh.name/spec/base64.html > > These are functions supported by all browsers except IE, which do base64 > encoding and decoding. Awesome. I've updated the spec accordingly. > I also wrote a fairly complete test suite, at: > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html/raw-file/tip/tests/submission/AryehGregor/base64.html Cool. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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