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GB 18030

GB 18030 is a special way of writing the Chinese language on computers. It's like a special code that helps computers understand Chinese characters.

You know how when you type on the computer, you use letters to make words, right? Well, in Chinese, they use characters instead of letters. GB 18030 helps the computer understand those characters.

Let's pretend you're writing a letter to your friend in China. You'll need to use Chinese characters, but you need to make sure the computer can understand them. That's where GB 18030 comes in!

It tells the computer exactly which character you're using, even if it's a really complicated one. This is helpful because there are so many Chinese characters and it would be really hard for computers to understand them all without something like GB 18030.

So, whenever you want to write something in Chinese on the computer, you need to use GB 18030 so the computer can read and understand what you're writing. It's like a secret code that only computers and people who know Chinese can understand!