RE: [TCLUG:1981] Chinese e-mail from Linux?

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Yao-Pin Kuo [SMTP:kuo@math.umn.edu]
> Sent:	Sunday, November 01, 1998 1:01 PM
> To:	tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:1981] Chinese e-mail from Linux?
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
> > 
> > (I think my Chinese characters lost some control characters above,
> when
> > I pasted in from my emacs buffer.)
>     
>    As I heard, emacs mule internally use one special encoding system
> for
> international language, so users can type several different languages
> in
> the same buffer. I think that's why you have problem in copy/past from
> emacs buffer.  
> 
> > 
> > The default encoding it suggests is cn-gb-2312, but I've been
> choosing
> > iso-2022-7bit, because "7bit" sounds safer for e-mail.  My friend
> > evidently decoded it with NJStar, but shouldn't the character set
> > really be specified in the MIME header somewhere?  And ... what are
> all
> > those different encodings, really?
> > 
>     There are many encoding systems for simplied Chinese, but gb is
> the
> most popular one. Almost all people use it. I would suggest you use
> it.
	[Schlough, Mark]  
	Since you are primarily communicating with PRC folks the GB code
is the correct font.  However, I am a bit skeptical of the notion that
Almost all people use it.  I think that Almost all people in the the PRC
use it.  Big5 is used more in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaisia and other
places where tradtional characters are still used.  I think that Hong
Kong is also still using Big5 in its publications.  This is what my
friend (a schoolteacher in HK) told me in 1994.

> Usually, most simplied Chinese web pages or text files you can find in
> the
> internet are written in gb code. The problem for gb code is 8bit.
> Before,
> sendmail stript 8th bit, so people can't tranfer Chinese email
> directly.
> Now, most sites configure sendmail such that it dosen't strip 8bit. I
> my
> experience, I can send 8 bit Chinese email to many place without any
> problem. If you really encounter this knid of problem, you can
> configure
> mutt encode 8 bit Chinese to quote-printable. ( I heard mutt can do
> it,
> but I don't know how cause I don't use mutt. I use pine). Of course,
> in
> the case, the program used to read you email must support MIME
> encoding. 
> 
> 
> 
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