RFC 1922 · INFORMATIONAL · 1996

Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages

Overview

RFC 1922, “Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages”, is an Informational document published in March 1996 by HF. Zhu, DY. Hu, ZG. Wang, TC. Kao, WCH. Chang, M. Crispin. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo describes methods of transporting Chinese characters in Internet services which transport text, such as electronic mail [RFC-822], network news [RFC-1036], telnet [RFC-854] and the World Wide Web [RFC-1866]. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard.

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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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