String::Multibyte::GBK - internally used by String::Multibyte for GBK
use String::Multibyte; $gbk = String::Multibyte->new('GBK'); $gbk_length = $gbk->length($gbk_string);
String::Multibyte::GBK
is used for manipulation of strings in GBK (Guobiao Kuozhan).
Byte range of single-byte characters: 0x00..0x80
.
Leading byte range of double-byte characters: 0x81..0xFE
.
Trailing byte range of double-byte characters: 0x40..0x7E
and 0x80..0xFE
.
Character order (invalid code points are excluded): 0x00..0x80
, 0x8140..0xFEFE
.
0x80
is supported in consideration of Microsoft's CP936. (Hmmm, according to IANA Charset Registration for GBK, GBK must be identical to CP936.)