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ARROW-15552: [Doc][Format] Remove erroneous mention of base64
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This is probably a leftover of a draft version of the C data interface which involved base64 encoding of metadata values.

Closes apache#12361 from pitrou/ARROW-15552-c-data-interface-base64

Authored-by: Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org>
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pitrou authored and vfraga committed Mar 25, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -511,8 +511,7 @@ For extension arrays, the :c:member:`ArrowSchema.format` string encodes the
metadata key ``ARROW:extension:name`` encodes the extension type name,
and the metadata key ``ARROW:extension:metadata`` encodes the
implementation-specific serialization of the extension type (for
parameterized extension types). The base64 encoding of metadata values
ensures that any possible serialization is representable.
parameterized extension types).

The ``ArrowArray`` structure exported from an extension array simply points
to the storage data of the extension array.
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