Oh stupid me! Thanks a lot Sven, crystal clear explanations (and class comments!), as always :) On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Bonsoir François,

From the class comment of ZnBase64Encoder:

[...] Note that to encode a String as Base64, you first have to encode the characters as bytes using a character encoder. [...]

Sending #asByteArray to a String is the same as doing no encoding (or doing null encoding).

Consider:

ZnBase64Encoder new encode: (ZnUTF8Encoder new encodeString: 'tamèreenslipdeguerre').

=> 'dGFtw6hyZWVuc2xpcGRlZ3VlcnJl'

ZnBase64Encoder new encode: (ZnByteEncoder iso88591 encodeString: 'tamèreenslipdeguerre').

=> 'dGFt6HJlZW5zbGlwZGVndWVycmU='

ZnBase64Encoder new encode: (ZnNullEncoder new encodeString: 'tamèreenslipdeguerre').

=> 'dGFt6HJlZW5zbGlwZGVndWVycmU='

The last two are often the same, and thus equivalent to #asByteArray, but not always.

HTH,

Sven

On 11 Jun 2014, at 21:56, François Stephany <tulipe.moutarde@gmail.com> wrote:

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I might hit some problem with Base64 encoding in there. It seems that Pharo does not use UTF8 for its Base64 encoding.

I'm probably missing something related to Base64 encoding...

In Pharo 3.0:

ZnBase64Encoder new encode: 'tamèreenslipdeguerre' asByteArray. -> 'dGFt6HJlZW5zbGlwZGVndWVycmU='

'tamèreenslipdeguerre' base64Encoded. -> 'dGFt6HJlZW5zbGlwZGVndWVycmU='

In Ruby 2.0:

Base64.strict_encode64("tamèreenslipdeguerre") -> dGFtw6hyZWVuc2xpcGRlZ3VlcnJl

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp (iso-8859-1) tamèreenslipdeguerre -> dGFt6HJlZW5zbGlwZGVndWVycmU=

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp (utf8) -tamèreenslipdeguerre > dGFtw6hyZWVuc2xpcGRlZ3VlcnJl