Re: base-64 ignored

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On Thursday, May 26, 2022 12:25:48 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2022 18:11:39 CEST gene heskett wrote:
> > it's not 77u/ alone on a line, its all one line as displayed in kmail.
> > is the / an illegal char in base 64?
> 
> Ah, okay. So the line got word-wrapped in your email. No, / is a legal char
> in base64. Maybe the end of the base64-encoded data is broken. Try
> decoding the data with `base64 --decode`.

Some information I found says / is not a legal character in base64:

"For encoding data, Base64 uses only alphabet, number and = symbol. For 
instance, c2FtcGxlCg== is a valid encoded data while b?HV3.Zh2J== is not a 
valid encoded data."

from https://linuxhint.com/base64_encode_decode_command_line/
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