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GBK is an extension of the GB2312 character set for simplified Chinese characters, used in the People's Republic of China. GB2312 is the registered internet name for a key official character set of the Peoples Republic of China, used for simplified Chinese characters. ...
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. ...
Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ...
GB stands for National Standard, while K stands for Extension. GBK not only extended the old standard GB2312 with Traditional Chinese characters, but also with Chinese characters that were simplified after the establishment of GB2312 in 1981. With the arrival of GBK, certain names with characters formerly unrepresentable, like the "rong" character in former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's name, are now representable. Zhū Róngjì (born October 1, 1928, Simplified Chinese: 朱镕基 or often incorrectly 朱熔基; Traditional Chinese: 朱鎔基; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi) was the 9th Premier of the Peoples Republic of China State Council (March 1998-March 2003), and was a Standing Committee member of the Politburo of 15th CPC Central Committee...
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In 1993, the Unicode 1.1 standard was released, including 20,902 characters used in China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Following this, China released GB13000.1-93, a national standard (Guobiao) equivalent of Unicode 1.1. Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ...
Korea refers to South Korea and North Korea together, which were a unified country until 1948. ...
The GBK character set was defined in 1993 as an extension of GB2312-80, while also including the characters of GB13000.1-93 through the unused codepoints available in GB2312. Hence GBK is upward compatible with GB2312. GB2312 is the registered internet name for a key official character set of the Peoples Republic of China, used for simplified Chinese characters. ...
Microsoft implemented GBK in Windows 95 as Code Page 936 (CP936). While GBK was never an official standard, widespread usage of Windows 95 led to GBK becoming the de facto standard. While GBK included all the Chinese characters defined in Unicode 1.1 and GB13000.1-93, these standards used different code tables. The primary reason for its existence was simply to bridge the gap between GB2312-80 and GB13000.1-93 Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical user interface-based operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. ...
In 2000, the GB18030-2000 standard was released, superseding yet maintaining compatibility with GBK. It increased the number of definitions of Chinese characters and extended the number of possible characters through the implementation of four-byte character spaces. This article is about the year 2000. ...
GB18030 is the registered Internet name for the official character set of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
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