WTF?

[ewx]

mime-version: 1.0
content-type: text/plain; charset=gb2312
content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <20060924082345.DB8133FFCB@zxtm3.redstardevelopment.com>
From: "Order Confirmation" <info@play.com>
To: 
subject: Confirmation of order received by play.com
date: 24 Sep 2006 09:23:56 +0100

GB2312? What's that then?

GB2312 is the registered internet name for a key official character set of the People's Republic of China, used for simplified Chinese characters. GB abbreviates Guojia Biaozhun (国家标准), which means national standard in Chinese.

(The text of the mail is in English, although their interpretation of quoted-printable is a bit individual...)

I suppose to be fair I should mention that Amazon's equivalent emails claim a charset of ascii but then include £.