Re: New error ... missing `char-charset' symbol.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > You mean my signature? That is nothing but HZ encoded my name.
> > It is ASCII. View it by M-x gnus-article-HZ-decode.
> 
> Well, it is ascii in the same way that a uuencoded jpeg is ascii :-)
> What I was getting at is that nothing in your messages gives a hint as
> to what should be done with your signature.  Do you think it would be
> useful to add some MIME header for this, or do you think that people
> who don't know what to do with it won't be able to make use of it
> anyway?  (For example, I didn't know what to do, and you told me, but
> that doesn't really help much because while your HZ-decoded name is
> much prettier, I can't read it either :-)

HZ encoding (like ~{VlJ$;p~}) is something that's not part of the MIME 
continuum, but rather something that was developed much earlier.  It's 
documented in RFC1843, and it's a different way to encode Chinese text 
in ASCII.

   HZ is a 7-bit data format proposed for arbitrarily mixed GB and ASCII
   text file exchange.  HZ is also intended for the design of terminal
   emulators that display and edit mixed Chinese and ASCII text files in
   real time.

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