UTF8, base64 and other encoding conversion
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A common way to represent binary files in ascii-only diplay is to use base64. This is also done a piece of software does not handle unicode: it manipulate its base64 representation.
6YCZ5YCL57ay56uZ5piv576O6bqX55qECg== and dGhpcyB3ZWJzaXRlIGlzIGJlYXV0aWZ1bAo=
- to text/unicode:
echo '6YCZ5YCL57ay56uZ5piv576O6bqX55qECg==' | base64 -d
echo 'dGhpcyB3ZWJzaXRlIGlzIGJlYXV0aWZ1bAo=' | base64 -d
- to text/unicode:
echo '6YCZ5YCL57ay56uZ5piv576O6bqX55qECg==' | base64 -d | xxd -p -i | sed -e's/, //g'
echo 'dGhpcyB3ZWJzaXRlIGlzIGJlYXV0aWZ1bAo=' | base64 -d | xxd -p -i | sed -e's/, //g'
- from hex:
echo 'e98099e5808be7b6b2e7ab99e698afe7be8ee9ba97e79a840a' | xxd -p -r
- mix hex and ascii to ascii:
echo -e 'this\x20website\x20is\x20bueatiful'
UTF8, base64 and other encoding conversion
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="100" class="zemanta-img"] encoding conversion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
A common way to represent binary files in ascii-only diplay is to use base64. This is also done a piece of software does not handle unicode: it manipulate its base64 representation.
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