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textencodebase64 Function

Encodes the input string to the destination encoding. The output is base64-encoded to account for HCL's string encoding limitations: they must be UTF-8, NFC-normalised.

Packer uses the standard base64 alphabet as defined in RFC 4648 section 4.

The encoding_name argument must contain one of the encoding names or aliases recorded in the IANA character encoding registry.

Examples

# Usage: textencodebase64(input_string, encoding_name)
> textencodebase64("Hello World", "UTF-16LE")
SABlAGwAbABvACAAVwBvAHIAbABkAA==

Related Functions

• base64encode performs the opposite operation, encoding the UTF-8 bytes for a string as Base64.