locale/FreeBSD/gbk.5

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  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  62 GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by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.