Support for urlsafe alphabets in Base64?

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the Base64 module seems to be hardcoded to use the standard alphabet - I need to consume data encoded with the urlsafe alphabet (-,_ instead of +,/). As a workaround I’m translating the source string into the urlsafe equivalent before decoding, like

base64decode(replace(replace(str, "-", "+"), "_", "/"))

but this feels pretty dirty, and obviously impractical for arbitrary alphabets. I think there’s value in separating the base64 encoding/decoding routines from the alphabet they use, allowing convenience functions

urlsafebase64decode(str)

or the generic case

base64decode(str, alphabet=myAlphabet)
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I ended up writing my own base64 encode/decode methods, for this exact reason.

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You could make a PR allowing different alphabets to be specified.

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I am running into the same issue after 6 years - you mentioned you created your own encode/decode methods for this reason - can you share them?

I am looking for the decode version and don’t like to make any mistake in the implementation