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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Committed.  If `base64-decode-region' is broken in Emacs 20 it doesn't
> help though.

I finally managed to look at the documentation, and it's strange
behavior is even documented:

| Base64-decode the region between BEG and END.
| Return the length of the decoded text.
| If the region can't be decoded, return nil and don't modify the buffer.

Is this different on Emacs 21?