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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 2003 Tim J. Robbins |
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| 25 | .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/locale/gbk.5,v 1.4 2004/07/05 06:36:36 ru Exp $ | |
| 26 | .\" | |
| 27 | .Dd August 10, 2003 | |
| 28 | .Dt GBK 5 | |
| 29 | .Os | |
| 30 | .Sh NAME | |
| 31 | .Nm gbk | |
| 32 | .Nd "Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese text" | |
| 33 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 34 | .Nm ENCODING | |
| 35 | .Qq GBK | |
| 36 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 37 | GBK is a backwards-compatible extension of the GB\ 2312-1980 encoding | |
| 38 | method for Chinese text, which adds the characters defined in the | |
| 39 | Unified Han portion of the Unicode 2.1 standard. | |
| 40 | .Pp | |
| 41 | Multibyte characters in the GBK | |
| 42 | encoding can be one byte or two bytes long. | |
| 43 | .No GB\ 11383-1981 Pq Tn ASCII | |
| 44 | characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F. | |
| 45 | Chinese characters are represented by two bytes, beginning with a byte in | |
| 46 | the range 0x80-0xFE and ending with a byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. | |
| 47 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 48 | .Xr euc 5 , | |
| 49 | .Xr gb18030 5 , | |
| 50 | .Xr gb2312 5 , | |
| 51 | .Xr utf8 5 | |
| 52 | .Rs | |
| 53 | .%Q "The Unicode Consortium" | |
| 54 | .%T "The Unicode Standard, Version 2.1" | |
| 55 | .%D "1999" | |
| 56 | .Re | |
| 57 | .Rs | |
| 58 | .%T "Chinese National Standard GB 18030-2000: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set" | |
| 59 | .%D "March 2000" | |
| 60 | .Re | |
| 61 | .Sh STANDARDS | |
| 62 | GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by | |
| 63 | GB\ 18030-2000. |