[character encoding] The HZ character encoding is an encoding of GB2312 that was formerly commonly used in email and USENET postings. It was designed in 1989 by Fung Fung Lee ({zh|李楓峰}) of Stanford University, and subsequently codified in 1995 into RFC 1843. The HZ, short for Hanzi ({zh|t=漢字|s=汉字|l=Chinese Characters}), encodi... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HZ_(character_encoding)