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 Uni-
fied 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 represented 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 18030-2000: 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GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.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
