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doc: document that whitespace is ignored in base64 decoding
Fixes: #8569 PR-URL: #34227 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]>
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* `'base64'`: [Base64][] encoding. When creating a `Buffer` from a string,
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this encoding will also correctly accept "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" as
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specified in [RFC 4648, Section 5][].
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specified in [RFC 4648, Section 5][]. Whitespace characters such as spaces,
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tabs, and new lines contained within the base64-encoded string are ignored.
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* `'hex'`: Encode each byte as two hexadecimal characters. Data truncation
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may occur when decoding string that do exclusively contain valid hexadecimal

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