The
GB2312
encoding implements GB 2312-1980, a PRC national standard
for the encoding of simplified Chinese characters.
Multibyte characters in the GB2312
encoding can be one byte or two bytes long.
GB 11383-1981 (ASCII
)
characters are represented by single bytes in the range 0x00 to 0x7F.
Simplified Chinese characters are represented by two bytes, both in
the range 0xA1-0xFE.