[OT] encodings (Re: Need help on Network programming)
Yoshiki Ohshima
yoshiki at squeakland.org
Sat Mar 19 03:25:43 UTC 2005
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.
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