Re: Embedding binary data in an application's property list

FROM : The Karl Adam
DATE : Thu Dec 16 18:52:03 2004

It is base 64 encoded binary data. Somewhere in the mountains of
documentation it is mentioned. I forget where though, now if only we
had access to thier base 64 encoder so I didn't have to right my own
for base 64, 32, and 16 encodings.

-Karl


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:20:25 +0000, Frederick Cheung <<email_removed>> wrote:
>
> On 16 Dec 2004, at 05:59, Andrew White wrote:
>
> > Lee Morgan wrote:
> >> You might want to look at NSData.
> >> I think that's what your looking for.
> >
> > Except that I can find no documentation on the packing format used by
> > NSData.
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/
> > CFPropertyLists/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000130i
> >
> > gives an example, but all that example does is show that some form of
> > encoding is used.  I couldn't find a definition of the encoding in the
> > attached documentation.
> >
> Looks like base64 to me
>
> Fred
>
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