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GBK(5)                                     BSD File Formats Manual                                    GBK(5)

NAME
     gbk -- Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese text

SYNOPSIS
     ENCODING "GBK"

DESCRIPTION
     GBK is a backwards-compatible extension of the GB 2312-1980 encoding method for Chinese text, which
     adds the characters defined in the Unified Han portion of the Unicode 2.1 standard.

     Multibyte characters in the GBK encoding can be one byte or two bytes long.  GB 11383-1981 (ASCII)
     characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F.  Chinese characters are repre-sented represented
     sented by two bytes, beginning with a byte in the range 0x80-0xFE and ending with a byte in the range
     0x40-0xFE.

SEE ALSO
     euc(5), gb18030(5), gb2312(5), utf8(5)

     The Unicode Standard, Version 2.1, The Unicode Consortium, 1999.

     Chinese National Standard GB 18_3_-2___: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character
     set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set, March 2000.

STANDARDS
     GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.

BSD                                            August 10, 2003                                           BSD

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