GBK(5)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1

🦋 GBK(5): the bestie-coded manual page 🦋

okay so this is the File Formats Manual page for gbk, aka GBK(5) — and yes bestie, we're doing the whole thing, every byte of detail included, no cap 💅.

🎀 NAME 🎀

gbk — Guojia biaozhun kuozhan (GBK) encoding method for Chinese text. periodt ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ENCODING "GBK"

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

GBK is a backwards-compatible extension of the GB 2312-1980 encoding method for Chinese text, and it adds the characters defined in the Unified Han portion of the Unicode 2.1 standard. iconic behavior, honestly 👑.

Multibyte characters in the GBK encoding can be one byte or two bytes long, bestie. 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 👀

and also these iconic references:

  • 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GBK is not a standard, bestie — it has been superseded by GB 18030-2000. that's the tea ☕💀.

mwah 💋 this cutie came from Debian, dated August 10, 2003, and it's the GBK(5) manual page. bye bestie 🫶

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