Title: ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
Author(s): Y. Wei, Y. Zhang, J. Li, J. Ding, Y. Jiang.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Aug 1995
Length: 24143
This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC822] and network news [RFC1036] messages over the Internet. The 7-bit representation of GB 2312 Chinese text was specified by Fung Fung Lee of Stanford University [Lee89] and implemented in various software packages under different platforms (see appendix for a partial list of the available software packages that support this encoding method). It is further tested and used in the usenet newsgroups alt.chinese.text and chinese.* as well as various other network forums with considerable success. Future extensions of this encoding method can accommodate additional GB character sets and other east asian language character sets [Wei94].
The name given to this encoding is "HZ-GB-2312", which is intended to be used in the "charset" parameter field of MIME headers (see [MIME1] and [MIME2]).
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