locale/FreeBSD/gb2312.5

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  27 .Dd November 7, 2003
  28 .Dt GB2312 5
  29 .Os
  30 .Sh NAME
  31 .Nm gb2312
  32 .Nd "GB2312 encoding method for Chinese text"
  33 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  34 .Nm ENCODING
  35 .Qq GB2312
  36 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  37 The
  38 .Nm GB2312
  39 encoding implements GB\ 2312-1980, a PRC national standard
  40 for the encoding of simplified Chinese characters.
  41 .Pp
  42 Multibyte characters in the GB2312
  43 encoding can be one byte or two bytes long.
  44 .No GB\ 11383-1981 Pq Tn ASCII
  45 characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F.
  46 Simplified Chinese characters are represented by two bytes, both in
  47 the range 0xA1-0xFE.
  48 .Sh SEE ALSO
  49 .Xr euc 5 ,
  50 .Xr gb18030 5 ,
  51 .Xr gbk 5
  52 .Sh STANDARDS
  53 The
  54 .Nm GB2312
  55 encoding is believed to be compatible with GB\ 2312-1980.
  56 This standard has been superseded by GB\ 18030-2000, but is still
  57 in wide use.