{"id":630,"date":"2015-06-20T05:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cknotes.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:59:59","slug":"chilkat-binary-encoding-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/chilkat-binary-encoding-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilkat Binary Encoding List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the Chilkat API there are method arguments and properties to indicate an encoding. These are encodings for binary data such as &#8220;hex&#8221;, &#8220;base64&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Note: These are not character encodings. A character encoding, such as &#8220;utf-8&#8221; indicates the byte representation of a character. A binary encoding, such as &#8220;base64&#8221;, represents non-character binary data in printable string form.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever an <em>encoding<\/em> method argument or property exists, the list of valid encodings supported by Chilkat are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>base64<\/li>\n<li>hex<\/li>\n<li>modbase64 (base64url)<\/li>\n<li>base32<\/li>\n<li>base58<\/li>\n<li>uu<\/li>\n<li>qp (for quoted-printable)<\/li>\n<li>url (url_rfc3986)<\/li>\n<li>url_rfc1738<\/li>\n<li>Q (for MIME Q-Encoding)<\/li>\n<li>B (for MIME B-Encoding)<\/li>\n<li>fingerprint (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.55)<\/li>\n<li>decimal (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.55)<\/li>\n<li>eda (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.65, for encoding\/decoding to the UN\/EDIFACT Syntax Level A character set)<\/li>\n<li>json (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.66, for escaping and unescaping JSON strings)<\/li>\n<li>decList (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.66. See the notes below.)<\/li>\n<li>base64_mime (added in Chilkat v9.5.0.67. Same as &#8220;base64&#8221; but the output is in lines just as it would appear in MIME or in a PEM.)<\/li>\n<li>ascii85 (added in v9.5.0.79)<\/li>\n<li>base45(added in v9.5.0.99)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chilkat is case-insensitive for recognizing an encoding by name.\u00a0 For example &#8220;Base64&#8221; and &#8220;base64&#8221; are both recognized as &#8220;base64&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;fingerprint&#8221; encoding is a lowercase hex encoding where each hex digit is separated by a colon character.\u00a0 For example: 6a:de:e0:af:56:f8:0c:04:11:5b:ef:4d:49:ad:09:23<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;decimal&#8221; encoding is for converting large decimal integers to\/from a big-endian binary representation.\u00a0 For example, the decimal string &#8220;72623859790382856&#8221; converts to the bytes 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;decList&#8221; encoding is for converting comma-separated lists of decimal integers to bytes and back.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;84, 104, 101, 32, 116, 114, 117, 101, 32, 115, 105, 103, 110&#8221;.\u00a0 Each decimal integer is a value from 0 to 255.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the Chilkat API there are method arguments and properties to indicate an encoding. These are encodings for binary data such as &#8220;hex&#8221;, &#8220;base64&#8221;, etc. Note: These are not character encodings. A character encoding, such as &#8220;utf-8&#8221; indicates the byte representation of a character. A binary encoding, such as &#8220;base64&#8221;, represents non-character binary data in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binary-encoding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}