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Move it to a separate file as there is no struct to hang the docs off. Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> Helps: #3037
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Title: Base64 Encoding
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SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006, 2009 Matthias Clasen
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# Base64 Encoding
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Base64 is an encoding that allows a sequence of arbitrary bytes to be
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encoded as a sequence of printable ASCII characters. For the definition
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of Base64, see [RFC 1421](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1421.txt) or
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[RFC 2045](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt).
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Base64 is most commonly used as a MIME transfer encoding for email.
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GLib supports incremental encoding using [func@GLib.base64_encode_step] and
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[func@GLib.base64_encode_close]. Incremental decoding can be done with
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[func@GLib.base64_decode_step]. To encode or decode data in one go, use
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[func@GLib.base64_encode] or [func@GLib.base64_decode]. To avoid memory
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allocation when decoding, you can use [func@GLib.base64_decode_inplace].
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Support for Base64 encoding was added in GLib 2.12.
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