GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

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This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on GB2312 character set and encoding. Topics including introduction of the GB2312 character set for simplified Chinese characters; GB2312 encoding for the GB2312 character set; Relation of GB2312 and Unicode.

GB2312 Character Set for Chinese Characters

GB2312 Encoding for GB2312 Character Set

Relation of GB2312 and Unicode

Conclusions:

• GB2312 character set contains 7445 simplified Chinese characters, numbers and symbols.
• GB2312 character set arranges characters into a matrix of 94 rows and 94 columns.
• GB2312 encoding uses 2 bytes: the high byte is the row number plus 158 and the low byte is the column number plus 158.
• GB2312 character set is a sub set of Unicode character set.