Subject: Re: bug#66698: I think hex decoding with basenc -d --base16 should be case-insensitive

From: Niels Möller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:50:27 +0200

Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:

> Will apply the attached later.
> Marking this as done.

Thanks! It would make some sense to me to also have options
--upper/--lower; on encoding, they would specify case of the output, on
decoding, they would reject the other case (with default being to accept
either). But less important than fixing the default behavior.

> +  basenc --base16 -d no supports lower case hexadecimal characters.
> +  Previously an error was given for lower case hex digits.

s/ no / now /

Regards,
/Niels

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