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bstill
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6 years ago
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Issues with Binary.FromText converting special characters

I am trying to convert text to Base64, but it doesn't seem to work with special characters. Here is the line of code:   Var = Binary.FromText("Key:Value", BinaryEncoding.Base64)   "KeyValue" - Co...
  • bstill's avatar
    6 years ago

    The solution was to convert to Binary and then encode to Base64. It's still interesting that it doesn't handle special characters.

     

    Var = "Key:Value",
    VarBin = Text.ToBinary(Var),
    VarBin64 = Binary.ToText(VarBin, BinaryEncoding.Base64),