Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 10-May-91 Re: EBCDIC & uuencode/uudecode Keld J|rn Simonsen@dkuug (804) > Then we need 2 more characters. The "non-problem" characters > tracked down so far are: > '()-+:=,./? The two that are used by the base64 encoding as of the latest draft are "+" and "/". Sounds good.