63 lines
2.4 KiB
Groff
63 lines
2.4 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Tim J. Robbins
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd August 10, 2003
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.Dt GBK 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm gbk
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.Nd "Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese text"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm ENCODING
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.Qq GBK
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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GBK is a backwards-compatible extension of the GB\ 2312-1980 encoding
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method for Chinese text, which adds the characters defined in the
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Unified Han portion of the Unicode 2.1 standard.
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.Pp
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Multibyte characters in the GBK
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encoding can be one byte or two bytes long.
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.No GB\ 11383-1981 ( Ns
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.Tn ASCII )
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characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F.
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Chinese characters are represented by two bytes, beginning with a byte in
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the range 0x80-0xFE and ending with a byte in the range 0x40-0xFE.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr euc 4 ,
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.Xr gb18030 5 ,
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.Xr utf8 5
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.Rs
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.%Q "The Unicode Consortium"
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.%T "The Unicode Standard, Version 2.1"
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.%D "1999"
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.Re
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.Rs
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.%T "Chinese National Standard GB 18030-2000: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set"
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.%D "March 2000"
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.Re
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.Sh STANDARDS
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GBK is not a standard, but has been superceded by
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GB\ 18030-2000.
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