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<cfscript>
originalText = "Hello World!";

// Step 1: Convert string to binary
binaryData = ToBinary( ToBase64(originalText) ); // this is NOT what you want here

// Instead: Convert string to raw bytes (Java-style)
byteArray = CharsetDecode(originalText, "utf-8");

// Step 2: Encode binary to Base64
encodedBase64 = ToBase64(byteArray);

decodedText = ToString(ToBinary(encodedBase64));

// Output
writeOutput("Original Text: " & originalText & "<br>");
writeOutput("Encoded Base64 (safe for ToString(ToBinary())): " & encodedBase64);
writeOutput("<br>Decoded Text (ToString(ToBinary())): " & decodedText);
</cfscript>