# Base64

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Base64 encoding and decodings.

For the companion optics and pattern synonyms, see [base64-lens](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base64-lens).

### Summary

The following types are supported for both std, padded url-safe, and unpadded url-safe alphabets:

- `Data.ByteString`
- `Data.ByteString.Lazy`
- `Data.ByteString.Short`
- `Data.Text`
- `Data.Text.Lazy`
- `Data.Text.Short`

Additionally this library has

- Better performance than `base64-bytestring` for encode and decode.
- Optics for handling more complex structures with Base64 representations via the `base64-lens` package
- Checks for both validity and correctness of Base64 and Base64url encodings
- Rejects non-canonical encodings that do not roundtrip in other base64 libraries like `ZE==`.

There are no dependencies aside from those bundled with GHC, `text-short`, and the `ghc-byteorder` re-export.