HZ (character encoding)
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HZ (character encoding)
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The HZ character encoding is an encoding of GB 2312 that was formerly commonly used in email and USENET postings. It was designed in 1989 by Fung Fung Lee of Stanford University, and subsequently codified in 1995 into RFC 1843. The HZ, short for Hanzi, encoding was invented to facilitate the use of Chinese characters through e-mail, which at that time only allowed 7-bit characters. Therefore, in lieu of standard ISO 2022 escape sequences or 8-bit characters, the HZ code uses only printable, 7-bi
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Format for sending GB 2312 text over a 7-bit ASCII channel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HZ_(character_encoding)
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2024-03-01T05:31:44Z
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