What is the advantage of using Base64 encoding?

Question

What is the advantage of using Base64 encode?

I would like to understand it better. Do I really need it? Can\'t I simply use pure strings?

I heard that the e

Answer 1

Originally some protocols only allowed 7 bit, and sometimes only 6 bit, data.

Base64 allows one to encode 8 bit data into 6 bits for transmission on those types of links.

Email is an example of this.