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:: There's not much logical difference between a string and an image at this level; you're really encoding a byte sequence (and logically you have to start by encoding both the string and the image as bytes before you can apply the encoding at all, even if that's typically trivial for ASCII strings). I'll rename the task though, probably to “Base64 encoding” so as to better reflect what the task actually asks for. I encourage writing a matching decoding task; we can put in cross links between the two too. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 10:36, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
::: But the thing is that the current task requires downloading of a file from the Web, which is conceptually separate from base-64. And downloading from the Web may be a very complicated task or it may not be supported by standard libraries in some languages, so I don't think it should be included. --[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] ([[User talk:Spoon!|talk]]) 20:36, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
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