tlug: Chinese

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

Here are some of the results of my attempts 
to work with Chinese text. 

Big5 characters in Netscape became garbage 
when pasted in MULE. I emailed that mess 
to myself and found that the content-type was:

Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1
(*ctext*, I think. Used for Latin-1 
and also in 8byte characters produced 
by quail). 
The same encoding was resulted when 
GB characters were pasted into Mule from 
Netscape. 

I think that the encoding of 
the data changed after I pushed 
C-c C-c, however. different kind 
of garbage. 

...and I just got a GB message put 
out by a mailing list which had the 
same encoding. standard for GB, perhaps? 
my system can display it when I 
input it and in Netscape, but not 
in Mule? 

I tried sending a page of Big5 to my 
email address via Netscape and got 
something like this: (don't know 
the content-type but it's not 
very pretty; Mule/Mew wants to send 
it as us-ascii). 



<BODY/><H1><BR>
ULap<BR>
pKb<BR>
</H1><BR>
@ @ ]   S  t   y G Q T  q ^ ] u    W o    J L y 
`


My .emacs file has the display 
set to *junet*, by the way. 
The garbage in Mule stayed 
as garbage despite my switching 
the display mode to various 
things in Mule with 
C-k C-m d. 



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