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Character Encoding: GBK

Technical information about character encoding standard GBK

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Technical information about character encoding GBK is available below.

Name

General

GBK

Detailed

GBK (Simplified Chinese)

MIME / IANA

GBK

Type

1 to 2 bytes (variable-width)

Languages
Chinese
Usage

less than 0.07%

The GBK, also known as Guojia Biaozhun Kuozhan, is a character encoding standard developed primarily for the Simplified Chinese language. It utilizes a variable-width, multi-byte encoding scheme.

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