Decoder garbles UTF-8 and Unicode text
The decoder garbles or rejects UTF-8 and Unicode text, so non-ASCII input comes out as unreadable characters.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 July 2022 · last reported 22 November 2025
What's going wrong
Users of this Firefox add-on that decodes base64 report that non-ASCII text comes out garbled.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.