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in reply to Base64 Decode issues

Locking at your example strings, I think you are wrong when you speak of "base64". The encoded characters in your strings are HTML::Entities and you can decode them like this:

C:\>perl -MHTML::Entities -pe "$_=decode_entities($_)"
Georgia
Georgia
Toni
Toni
^Z

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Re^2: Base64 Decode issues
by tux402 (Acolyte) on Dec 21, 2008 at 22:35 UTC
    You are right, I thought it was base64 because I was decoding it using this
    http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
    I guess I didn't recognize the encoding.
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