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base64-decode-region breaks encoding

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 38587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38587: base64-decode-region breaks encoding
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:13:45 +0100

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

> Something equivalent to what the manual has to say about it would be
> nice.

I've now added a slightly vague version what the manual says here to the
doc strings, but I think it should be factually correct.

I also noticed that the encode-coding-region/decode-coding-region doc
strings do not actually say the most important thing -- whether
"encoding" goes from bytes to text or the other way around, so I've now
made this extremely explicit, because I think there's a lot of confusion
in the area, and "encode" and "decode" in themselves don't actually mean
anything.

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