GB 18030

character encoding standardized in P.R. of China and mostly used for Simplified Chinese, compatible with the universal character set defined in The Unicode® Standard and the ISO/IEC 10646 standard, backward compatible with GB encodings
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GB 18030

Summary

GB 18030 is a coded character set[1]. It draws 87 Wikipedia views per month (coded_character_set category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • GB 18030 is in the country of People's Republic of China[3].
  • GB 18030's instance of is recorded as coded character set[4].
  • GB 18030's instance of is recorded as GB standard[5].
  • GB 18030's instance of is recorded as character encoding[6].
  • GB 18030's instance of is recorded as Unicode encoding[7].
  • GB 18030's based on is recorded as GBK[8].
  • GB 18030's based on is recorded as Universal Character Set[9].
  • GB 18030's Commons category is recorded as GB 18030[10].
  • GB 18030's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02gzmb[11].
  • GB 18030's replaces is recorded as GBK[12].
  • GB 18030's standards body is recorded as National Standardization Administration[13].
  • GB 18030's title is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-cn', 'text': '国家标准GB 18030-2005《信息技术 中文编码字符集》'}[14].
  • GB 18030's used by is recorded as standard hanzi in mainland China[15].
  • GB 18030's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as GB18030[16].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 02084[17].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 02085[18].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 02086[19].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 02087[20].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 01084[21].
  • GB 18030's IBM graphic character set global ID is recorded as 01085[22].
  • GB 18030's International Classification for Standards is recorded as 35.040[23].

Body

Geography

GB 18030 is in the country of People's Republic of China[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include coded character set[4], GB standard[5], character encoding[6], and Unicode encoding[7].

Why It Matters

GB 18030 draws 87 Wikipedia views per month (coded_character_set category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . gb688.cn. gb688.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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