./converters/p5-MIME-Base64, Perl5 module for Base64 and Quoted-Printable encodings

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Branch: pkgsrc-2011Q4, Version: 3.13nb1, Package name: p5-MIME-Base64-3.13nb1, Maintainer: heinz

This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable
encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 -
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).

The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of
octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character
subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be
represented per printable character.

The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that
largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in
the ASCII character set. Non-printable characters are represented by
a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal
digits.

The MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint modules used to be part of
libwww-perl package. They are now distributed separately (this
package). The main improvement is that the base64 encoder/decoder is
implemented by XS functions. This makes it about 20 times faster than
the old implementation in perl.


Required to run:
[lang/perl5]

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RMD160: e25f0be89264c803471e66c5c56077d3bc054dd4
Filesize: 17.319 KB

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