1.\" Copyright (c) 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 November 7, 2003 26.Dt GB2312 5 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm gb2312 30.Nd "GB2312 encoding method for Chinese text" 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Nm ENCODING 33.Qq GB2312 34.Sh DESCRIPTION 35The 36.Nm GB2312 37encoding implements GB\ 2312-1980, a PRC national standard 38for the encoding of simplified Chinese characters. 39.Pp 40Multibyte characters in the GB2312 41encoding can be one byte or two bytes long. 42.No GB\ 11383-1981 Pq Tn ASCII 43characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F. 44Simplified Chinese characters are represented by two bytes, both in 45the range 0xA1-0xFE. 46.Sh SEE ALSO 47.Xr euc 5 , 48.Xr gb18030 5 , 49.Xr gbk 5 50.Sh STANDARDS 51The 52.Nm GB2312 53encoding is believed to be compatible with GB\ 2312-1980. 54This standard has been superseded by GB\ 18030-2000, but is still 55in wide use. 56