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-encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
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-Base64 is an encoding that allows to encode a sequence of arbitrary
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-of Base64, see RFC
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-2045. Base64 is most commonly used as a MIME transfer encoding
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-g_base64_decode_step(). To encode or decode data in one go, use
-g_base64_encode() or g_base64_decode(). To avoid memory allocation when
-decoding, you can use g_base64_decode_inplace().
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diff --git a/glib/gbase64.c b/glib/gbase64.c
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#include "galias.h"
+/**
+ * SECTION:base64 Base64 Encoding
+ * @short_description: encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
+ *
+ * Base64 is an encoding that allows a sequence of arbitrary bytes to be
+ * encoded as a sequence of printable ASCII characters. For the definition
+ * of Base64, see RFC
+ * 1421 or RFC
+ * 2045. Base64 is most commonly used as a MIME transfer encoding
+ * for email.
+ *
+ * GLib supports incremental encoding using g_base64_encode_step() and
+ * g_base64_encode_close(). Incremental decoding can be done with
+ * g_base64_decode_step(). To encode or decode data in one go, use
+ * g_base64_encode() or g_base64_decode(). To avoid memory allocation when
+ * decoding, you can use g_base64_decode_inplace().
+ *
+ * Support for Base64 encoding has been added in GLib 2.12.
+ */
+
static const char base64_alphabet[] =
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";