Hello,

> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312"
> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> >
> > ...and that is really uncommon. :)
> >
> Probably for us who use the Latin charset, yes. I think you'll find large  
> parts of the world where all off communication takes place somewhere up  
> there in Unicode space, and this transfer encoding is just as good in that  
> case as anything else...

  As far as I know, it is uncommon to use base64 in chinese emails.
GB2312 is common, yes.  (I'm sure that it was not what both of you
meant, though^^;)

  Historically, email preceded Unicode.  Web took off before Unicode
took off.  Many site in these area of world doesn't use Unicode for
these applications.  So, "...in Unicode space" isn't exactly
accurate...

-- Yoshiki

  And Unicode isn't that great standard.