confused by the encoding stuff. are Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and Convert.FromBase64String are the same?
confused by the encoding stuff. are Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and Convert.FromBase64String are the same?
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confused by the encoding stuff. are Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes and Convert.FromBase64String are the same?
er… no.
Base64is a particular way of encoding binary data in an ASCII (7-bit) stream, usually for transmitting through some other media (email, etc…).UTF8is the way of encoding Unicode text as a series of bytes without having to use multiple characters for 7-bit ASCII characters.In other words: One is for binary data, the other is for text.
Side note: Strings in .NET are already in UTF16, and there are other methods for writing to files and streams as UTF8.