From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 03:56:04 CDT
On Tuesday 2 June 2009, Ruszlán Gaszanov <ruszlan@ather.net> wrote:
> William_J_G Overington wrote:
> > On Tuesday 2 June 2009, Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se>
> wrote:
[snipped]
> What's wrong with passing b64-encoded binary data?
>
> R.
>
>
It may be that the problem would be that the parameter passing would be expecting a string of Unicode characters to be passed.
Passing b64-encoded binary data could be ambiguous as to whether it was text or b64-encoded binary data.
The suggestion of using b64-encoded binary data could perhaps be adapted by placing a Unicode U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER in front of the b64-encoded binary data. That way, the parameter passing would always be in Unicode characters and the presence of a U+FFFC character would indicate that subsequent characters in the parameter should be interpreted as b64-encoded binary data.
William Overington
3 June 2009
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