Help converting python one-liner...

[Paul Dupuis]

On 4/24/2024 1:43 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
> I'm trying to base64 encode an image and include it into a json file to
> post to an api. The python code that accomplishes this is:
>
> image1_data =
> base64.b64encode(httpx.get(image1_url).content).decode("utf-8")
>
> When I try to follow the logic in Livecode I get:
>
> put url imageUrl into sImage
> put base64Encode (sImage) into base64Image
> put textDecode (base64Image, "UTF-8") into encodedImageData
>
> However the api complains that the image is not encoded properly. Adding or
> removing the "textDecode" step does not help. Any thoughts?
>

This is just a guess, but I thing your last line needs to be:

put textEncode(base64Image,"UTF-8") into encodedImageData

textDecode in Livecode converts from the format (UTF-8) to Livecode's 
16bit internal unicode

textEncode converts from livecode's internal 16bit unicode to the 
indicated format (UTF-8).