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• Special thanks for help with translating and understanding the GB 18030 standard goes to Dirk Meyer who published his findings about the standard on the Web site that accompanies Ken Lunde's excellent book about CJKV Information Processing.
• The XML mapping table for GB 18030-2000 with the data from November 30, 2000 is available on the ICU Web site.
• The XML format is described in Unicode Technical Report 22.
• There is a more technical early description of GB 18030 on the ICU Web site.
• ICU implements GB 18030 as a variant of its multi-byte codepage converter (see the license).
• See the Unicode Web site for details about the standard.
• There are many articles about related topics on the developerWorks Unicode special topic.
• See A brief explanation of codepages and Unicode here on developerWorks.

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