On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:

> Am 10.05.2018 um 21:42 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I propose the following:
>
> https://pharo.manuscript.com/f/cases/21870/Fix-Base64-madness-for-good
> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1331
>
> This is a much needed cleanup, IMHO. It is a breaking change however, since it changes the signature (return type) of an existing method.
>
> #base64Decoded used to wrongly return a String, while that should be a ByteArray since Base64 encoding is a way to encode bytes as ASCII text, hence decoding it should give you back the original bytes.
>
Please do. It is obviously the right move. The times where strings contained bytes and it makes sense is over for a long time.

Norbert