osx man page for gbk

Query: gbk

OS: osx

Section: 5

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GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.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