RFC 1842 · INFORMATIONAL · 1995

ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages

Overview

RFC 1842, “ASCII Printable Characters-Based Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages”, is an Informational document published in August 1995 by Y. Wei, Y. Zhang, J. Li, J. Ding, Y. Jiang. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes the encoding used in electronic mail [RFC822] and network news [RFC1036] messages over the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Telecommunications infrastructure is improving to offer higher bandwidth connections at lower cost. Access to the network is changing from modems to more intelligent devices. This informational RFC discusses a PPP Network Control Protocol for one such intelligent device. The protocol is the LAN extension interface protocol. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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