GNU bug report logs - #26372
Base64 inserts carriage return

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Goulven Guillard <lecotegougdelaforce <at> free.fr>

Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Goulven Guillard <lecotegougdelaforce <at> free.fr>
To: 26372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26372: Base64 inserts newline [was "Base64 inserts carriage return"]
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:35:29 +0200

Le 05/04/2017 à 12:39, Goulven Guillard a écrit :
> It seems `base64` inserts a carriage return ("Cg==") when encoding a
> string :
>
> $ echo foobar|base64
> Zm9vYmFyCg==

I just figured it was not a carriage return ("\r") but a simple newline 
("\n").  I was misleaded because for some reason my PHP form translates 
"\n" into "\r\n" during the POST submission.

Anyway, it doesn't change much the issue.

Regards,

Goulven Guillard.
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