1.\" Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Tim J. Robbins 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd August 10, 2003 26.Dt GB18030 5 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm gb18030 30.Nd "GB 18030 encoding method for Chinese text" 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Nm ENCODING 33.Qq GB18030 34.Sh DESCRIPTION 35The 36.Nm GB18030 37encoding implements GB 18030-2000, a PRC national standard for the encoding of 38Chinese characters. 39It is a superset of the older GB\ 2312-1980 and GBK encodings, 40and incorporates Unicode's Unihan Extension A completely. 41It also provides code space for all Unicode 3.0 code points. 42.Pp 43Multibyte characters in the 44.Nm GB18030 45encoding can be one byte, two bytes, or 46four bytes long. 47There are a total of over 1.5 million code positions. 48.Pp 49.No GB\ 11383-1981 Pq Tn ASCII 50characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F. 51.Pp 52Chinese characters are represented as either two bytes or four bytes. 53Characters that are represented by two bytes begin with a byte in the range 540x81-0xFE and end with a byte either in the range 0x40-0x7E or 0x80-0xFE. 55.Pp 56Characters that are represented by four bytes begin with a byte in the range 570x81-0xFE, have a second byte in the range 0x30-0x39, a third byte in the range 580x81-0xFE and a fourth byte in the range 0x30-0x39. 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr euc 5 , 61.Xr gb2312 5 , 62.Xr gbk 5 , 63.Xr utf8 5 64.Rs 65.%T "Chinese National Standard GB 18030-2000: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set" 66.%D "March 2000" 67.Re 68.Rs 69.%Q "The Unicode Consortium" 70.%T "The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0" 71.%D "2000" 72.Re 73.Sh STANDARDS 74The 75.Nm GB18030 76encoding is believed to be compatible with GB 18030-2000. 77