FreeLists / si-list / [SI-LIST] Re: OT: ??Encoded??

[Hal Murray <hmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not sure exactly how the message was encoded, though I suspect it
> may be in some non-English character font. If you figure out what it
> says I'd be interested in how you did it :)

I see similar things on SI-LIST occasionally.  I usually ignore them.  (Life 
is short.)

It looks like base64.  My first guess is that some mail system along the way 
mangled the encoding.


The header of my copy says:

  Content-type: text/plain; charset=GB2312
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Changing the 8bit to base64 (with an editor) gets a message in English with 
some junk on the end.


Google fiinds this:

     The GB2312 encoding implements GB 2312-1980, a PRC national
     standard for the encoding of simplified Chinese characters.

     Multibyte characters in the GB2312 encoding can be one byte or two bytes
     long.  GB 11383-1981 (ASCII) characters are represented by single bytes
     in the range 0x00 to 0x7F.  Simplified Chinese characters are represented
     by two bytes, both in the range 0xA1-0xFE.


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