Base64 encoding/decoding

[Oliver Kurz]

Hello,

I have a problem by converting a string to base64 and back again.

I have a string with german special chars like äöüß.

This string i convert with base64str=base6 4.encode('äöüß' ) into a base64 representation.

Backwards I got an error:


binascii.Error: Incorrect padding

I use base64.decode(b ase64str).

The charset I use is iso-iso-8859-1.

What am I doing wrong?

Is there somewhere a good tutorial bei encoding and decoding with different charsets?
I get text from different sources and i have to decode it and convert it at the end to utf-8.




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[Riccardo Galli]

Re: Base64 encoding/decoding

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:02:25 +0100, Oliver Kurz wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem by converting a string to base64 and back again.
>
> I have a string with german special chars like äöüß.
>
> This string i convert with base64str=base6 4.encode('äöüß' ) into a base64
> representation.[/color]

encode you string in utf
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> lol='äöüß'.deco de('iso-8859-1').encode('UTF 8')[/color][/color][/color]
'\xc3\xa4\xc3\x b6\xc3\xbc\xc3\ x9f'[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> base64.decodest ring(base64.enc odestring(lol))[/color][/color][/color]
'\xc3\xa4\xc3\x b6\xc3\xbc\xc3\ x9f

this should work

Ciao,
Riccardo

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