Code page 936 (Microsoft Windows)

Windows code page 936
MIME / IANA	GBK
Language(s)	Mainly used for Simplified Chinese, but also supports Traditional Chinese, Japanese, English, Russian and (partially) Greek.
Classification	GBK variant, Extended ASCII, variable-width encoding, CJK encoding
Extends	EUC-CN
Based on	GBK (GB 13000.1-93 annex)
Succeeded by	Code page 54936 (GB 18030)
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Windows code page 936 (abbreviated MS936, Windows-936 or (ambiguously) CP936),^[1] is Microsoft's legacy (pre-Unicode) character encoding for representing simplified Chinese text on computers. It is one of the four Windows DBCSs for East Asian languages, accompanying code pages 932 (Japanese), 949 (Korean) and 950 (Traditional Chinese). It is a variant of the Mainland Chinese Guójiā Biāozhǔn Kuòzhǎn (GBK) encoding, and roughly corresponds to IBM code page 1386 (CP1386 or IBM-1386).

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