Network Working Group Y. Wei
Request for Comments: 1842 AsiaInfo Services Inc.
Category: Informational Y. Zhang
Harvard Univ.
J. Li
Rice Univ.
J. Ding
AsiaInfo Services Inc.
Y. Jiang
Univ. of Maryland
August 1995
ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding
for Internet Messages
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC 822]
and network news [RFC 1036] 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]).
Wei, et al Informational