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.Dd August 10, 2003 .Dt GBK 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm gbk .Nd "Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese text" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm ENCODING .Qq GBK .Sh DESCRIPTION GBK is a backwards-compatible extension of the GB 2312-1980 encoding method for Chinese text, which adds the characters defined in the Unified Han portion of the Unicode 2.1 standard.

p Multibyte characters in the GBK encoding can be one byte or two bytes long. .No GB 11383-1981 Pq Tn 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. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr euc 5 , .Xr gb18030 5 , .Xr gb2312 5 , .Xr utf8 5 .Rs .%Q "The Unicode Consortium" .%T "The Unicode Standard, Version 2.1" .%D "1999" .Re .Rs .%T "Chinese National Standard GB 18030-2000: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set" .%D "March 2000" .Re .Sh STANDARDS GBK is not a standard, but has been superseded by GB 18030-2000.