freebsd man page for gbk

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     GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.

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