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My question is, why atob() function has so strange name?

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atob() is very old JavaScript function. The function name convention comes from C language. To keep JS API legacy it stayed unchanged all years.

"atob" name should be read as "ASCII to binary".

atob() function converts Base64 string (a - Base64 ASCII characters) to normal string (b - bytes represented as JavaScript String).

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