Base64ing unicode characters.

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Published on 2008-11-20T12:29:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 19:53 UTC
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Can unicode characters be en/decoded with base64?
I have attempted to encode the following string: ???? but when I decoded it all I got was '????'

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