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21    <p>A small set of interfaces used by
22    the various implementations in the sub-packages.</p>
23
24    <p>Definitive implementations of commonly used encoders and decoders.</p>
25
26    <p>Codec is currently comprised of a modest set of utilities and a
27    simple framework for String encoding and decoding in three categories:
28    Binary Encoders, Language Encoders, and Network Encoders. </p>
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30    <h4><a name="Common Encoders">Binary Encoders</a></h4>
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35          <td>
36            <a href="binary/Base64.html">
37              org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64</a>
38          </td>
39          <td>
40            Provides Base64 content-transfer-encoding as defined in
41            <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt"> RFC 2045</a>
42          </td>
43          <td>Production</td>
44        </tr>
45        <tr>
46          <td>
47           <a href="binary/Hex.html">
48             org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex</a>
49          </td>
50          <td>
51            Converts an array of bytes into an array of characters
52            representing the hexidecimal values of each byte in order
53          </td>
54          <td>Production</td>
55        </tr>
56      </tbody>
57    </table>
58    <h4>
59      <a name="Language Encoders">Language Encoders</a>
60    </h4>
61    <p>
62      Codec contains a number of commonly used language and phonetic
63      encoders
64    </p>
65    <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3">
66      <tbody>
67        <tr>
68          <td>
69            <a href="#">org.apache.commons.codec.language.Soundex</a>
70          </td>
71          <td>Implementation of the Soundex algorithm.</td>
72          <td>Production</td>
73        </tr>
74        <tr>
75          <td>
76            <a href="#">org.apache.commons.codec.language.Metaphone</a>
77          </td>
78          <td>Implementation of the Metaphone algorithm.</td>
79          <td>Production</td>
80        </tr>
81      </tbody>
82    </table>
83    <h4><a name="Network_Encoders">Network Encoders</a></h4>
84    <h4> </h4>
85    <p> Codec contains network related encoders </p>
86    <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3">
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88        <tr>
89          <td>
90            <a href="#">org.apache.commons.codec.net.URLCodec</a>
91          </td>
92          <td>Implements the 'www-form-urlencoded' encoding scheme.</td>
93          <td>Production</td>
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