From: james.harris.1@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On 18/07/2017 10:37, Terje Mathisen wrote:   
   > wolfgang kern wrote:   
   >> Martin Str|mberg wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>> So you decide the rules and tell and show us (if you want).   
   >>   
   >> Thanks, I thought real needs caused this restrictions.   
   >> So my rules for such an Base64 decoder would allow ASCII 33..127 and   
   >> nothing less than 386 code.   
   >   
   > That's rather stupid IMHO:   
   >   
   > If you have 95 available characters you should get at least 6.5   
   > bits/char, i.e. with such a large alphabet you need to use something   
   > more efficient than Base64.   
      
   What might be useful these days is a decoder for hex digit pairs. Then   
   the program would be human-readable - at least to people like Wolfgang. :-)   
      
   And if the code was position-independent it would even be editable!   
      
      
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