GB18030 is the registered Internet name for the official
character set of the
People's Republic of China (PRC) superseding
GB2312. This character set is formally called "Chinese National Standard GB 18030-2000: Information Technology -- Chinese ideograms coded character set for information interchange -- Extension for the basic set". GB abbreviates
Guójiā Biāozhǔn (国家标准), which means national standard in Chinese. The standard was published by the China Standard Press, Beijing,
March 17,
2000 and updated
November 20,
2000. As of
August 1,
2006, support for this character set is officially mandatory for all software products sold in the PRC. Due to its Unicode equivalence, GB18030 supports both
simplified and
traditional Chinese characters.
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