MIME base64 encode wide characters

Question

I use MIME::Base64 to encode some strings to safely pass over a URL But there are time where the code breaks due to wide characters

How can I safely encode wide characters, I need not use MIME::Base64 , any lightweight encoding will work for me

use MIME::Base64;
print  MIME::Base64::encode_base64("\x{2019}s text");
print "\nBye\n";

Answer 1

As you can see in the documentation, encode_base64 accepts bytes as the argument. To get bytes from a string, encode it:

use Encode;

print  MIME::Base64::encode_base64(encode('utf-8', "\x{2019}s text"));

Don't forget to decode back on the receiving side!