gb2312(5) BSD File Formats Manual gb2312(5)
NAME
gb2312 -- GB2312 encoding method for Chinese text
SYNOPSIS
ENCODING "GB2312"
DESCRIPTION
The GB2312 encoding implements GB 2312-1980, a PRC national standard for
the encoding of simplified Chinese characters.
Multibyte characters in the GB2312 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. Simplified Chinese characters are represented
by two bytes, both in the range 0xA1-0xFE.
SEE ALSO
euc(5), gb18030(5), gbk(5)
STANDARDS
The GB2312 encoding is believed to be compatible with GB 2312-1980. This
standard has been superseded by GB 18030-2000, but is still in wide use.
BSD November 7, 2003 BSD
Mac OS X 10.8 - Generated Sat Sep 1 10:42:06 CDT 2012