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        RFC 1922:

        Title:      Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages
        Author:     HF. Zhu, DY. Hu, ZG. Wang, TC. Kao, WCH. Chang &
                    M. Crispin
        Date:       March 1996
        Mailbox:    zhf@net.tsinghua.edu.cn, hdy@tsinghua.edu.cn,
                    tckao@iiidns.iii.org.tw, chung@iiidns.iii.org.tw,
                    MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU
        Pages:      27
        Characters: 50,995
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1922.txt


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).

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute