GNU bug report logs - #38053
27.0.50; base64url-encode-region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 03:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 38053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38053: 27.0.50; base64url-encode-region
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:26:01 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>   > We could rename that, but the name base64-url-encoder would not be
>>   > familiar to users, so it would be a disadvantage.
>> 
>> What was the first release that base64url-encode-region was in?
>
> Emacs 27, so renaming is not a problem from the POV.  The problem is
> that this is the name of that conversion, we didn't invent it
> ourselves.

I don't think there's anything here to fix -- the encoding is called
"base64url", so the command name is logical.  So I'm closing this bug
report.

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