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doc: document that whitespace is ignored in base64 decoding 
Fixes: #8569
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jasnell committed Jul 6, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ string into a `Buffer` as decoding.

* `'base64'`: [Base64][] encoding. When creating a `Buffer` from a string,
this encoding will also correctly accept "URL and Filename Safe Alphabet" as
specified in [RFC 4648, Section 5][].
specified in [RFC 4648, Section 5][]. Whitespace characters such as spaces,
tabs, and new lines contained within the base64-encoded string are ignored.

* `'hex'`: Encode each byte as two hexadecimal characters. Data truncation
may occur when decoding string that do exclusively contain valid hexadecimal
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