The State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration of the National Standardization Management Committee on July 19 issued a notice on the approval of the release of “information technology Chinese coding character set” and other 2 mandatory national standards.
Information technology Chinese coding character set” is the most important basic standard in the field of Chinese information technology, information systems that require Chinese processing need to apply such coding standards, used to convert Chinese characters into the corresponding code in the computer, for example, “rose” corresponds to the code “C7BE “. This coding character set is fully backward compatible with GB 2312-1980, basically backward compatible with GBK, and supports all code bits of Unicode (GB 13000).
The National Standards Information Public Service Platform shows that the national standard “Information Technology Chinese Coding Character Set” is categorized and implemented by 339 (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), and the competent department is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The main drafting units include China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute, Beijing Beifang Founder Electronics Co.
The first edition of “Information Technology Chinese Character Set” was released in 2000, and the first revision was made in 2005. After 17 years, the Information Technology Chinese Character Encoding Set has been revised again.
The new version of the mandatory national standard GB 18030-2022 will be implemented on August 1, 2023. GB 18030-2022 contains a total of 87,887 Chinese characters, an increase of more than 17,000 rare Chinese characters compared to the previous version.
