From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-18T11:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: What is base64.rb for? (from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/base64.rb)

Hi,

In message "What is base64.rb for? (from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/base64.rb)"
    on 03/04/18, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> writes:

|I note that it has a vestigial rfc2047 decoder for japanese (only!)
|character sets in it, as well as a few utility functions, and its
|still there in 1.8.

It's there only because historical and compatibility reason.

							matz.