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GB2312 is the registered internet name for the official character set of the People's Republic of China. GB abbreviates Guojia Biaozhun (国家标准), which means national standard in Chinese. A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. ... The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) comprises most of the cultural, historic, and geographic area known as China. ... Guóbiāo (国标) (GB) in the Peoples Republic of China is the abbreviation of Guójiā Biāozhǔn (国家标准), meaning the National Standards, or Guójiā Biāozhǔn Mǎ (国家标准码), meaning the National Standard Encoding as Chinese character encoding system. ...


GB 2312 (1980) includes 6,763 Chinese characters (on two levels: the first is arranged by reading, the second by radical then number of strokes), along with symbols and punctuation, Japanese kana, the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, Zhuyin, and a double-byte set of Pinyin letters with tone marks. GB 2312 has an analog character set with traditional forms replacing simplified forms, known as GB/T 12345. GB-encoded fonts often come in pairs, one with the GB 2312 (jianti) character set and the other with the GB/T 12345 (fanti) character set.


See also

Guobiao code is a collective term of the national standard encoding of the Peoples Republic of China. ... CJK can also stand for Centre Jeunes Kamenge. ... Chinese character encoding is needed for the display of Chinese characters in computers, used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages (collectively CJK). ... In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... GB18030 is the registered internet name for the official character set of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

External links

Graphical View of GB2312 in ICU's Converter Explorer (http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/demo/converters?conv=gb2312)



 
 

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