rfc1843

RFC1843 deals with mixing Chinese and ASCII characters in messages. In essence, RFC1843 switches between ASCII and Chinese by doing this:

This sentence is in ASCII.
The next sentence is in GB.~{<:Ky2;S{#,NpJ)l6HK!#~}Bye.

Simple enough, and widely used in China.

The following functions are available to handle this encoding:

rfc1843-decode-region

Decode HZ-encoded text in the region.

rfc1843-decode-string

Decode a HZ-encoded string and return the result.