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damncabbage on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should String Be An Abstract Class?

Unless it's in a URL. (This is why URL-safe Base64 versions exist... Which can then in turn be inappropriate for other places.)

mikeash on May 25, 2013 [–]

And base64 can use the / character, so it's unsafe for POSIX filenames.

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