Query: gbk
OS: freebsd
Section: 5
Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar
GBK(5) BSD File Formats Manual GBK(5)NAMEgbk -- Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese textSYNOPSISENCODING "GBK"DESCRIPTIONGBK 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 ALSOeuc(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set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set, March 2000.STANDARDSGBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.BSDAugust 10, 2003 BSD