Describes the HZ-GB-2312 encoding, the 7-bit Chinese character encoding designed for use in electronic mail and network news messages over the Internet.

Describes ISO-2022-CN and ISO-2022-CN-EXT encoding for transporting Chinese characters in Internet services such as electronic mail, network news, telnet and the World Wide Web. It also discuesses the common CN-GB, CN-Big5 and ISO-10646 encodings.