| 1 | This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable
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| 2 | encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 -
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| 3 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
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| 4 |
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| 5 | The Base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of
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| 6 | octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character
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| 7 | subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be
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| 8 | represented per printable character.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that
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| 11 | largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in
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| 12 | the ASCII character set. Non-printable characters are represented by
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| 13 | a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal
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| 14 | digits.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | The MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint modules used to be part of
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| 17 | libwww-perl package. They are now distributed separately (as this
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| 18 | package). The main improvement is that the base64 encoder/decoder is
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| 19 | implemented by XS functions. This makes it about 20 times faster than
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| 20 | the old implementation as pure Perl.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
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| 23 | 5.002 or better. Installation as usual:
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| 24 |
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| 25 | perl Makefile.PL
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| 26 | make
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| 27 | make test
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| 28 | make install
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| 29 |
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| 30 | The library can also be installed without XS support (for instance because
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| 31 | you don't have a working C compiler installed). Simply remove the Base64.xs
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| 32 | file before running 'perl Makefile.PL' and everything should work the same,
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| 33 | although encoding and decoding will be much slower.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | Copyright 1995-1999 Gisle Aas <[email protected]>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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| 38 | modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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